Oh to Marry a King

1 Samuel 8 entails what a king would require of the people.  The Shulamite woman, being a regular female, would have been prepared to be the wife of an ordinary man.  If she married the King, none of those skills would be relevant.  I was in a women's meeting and some of the women there shared the most useless knowledge I had ever heard.  They related the 21st century woman to a woman who can bake bread and make quilts.  In other words, you will marry men who will require you to learn to cook from scratch and make your own clothes.  What about marrying a King?  What will the 21st century woman do if she marries a man who does not need her to prepare him meals or wash his clothes?  What if he already exist in a place where all of his needs are met.  The Shulamite woman had a chance to be wooed by the King who had all his needs met or the shepherd boy who was living paycheck to paycheck.  All my life, I have been told that the only man I was going to marry would be a man living from paycheck to paycheck.  A man who was truly preoccupied with fulfilling his own needs .  He did not have time to fulfill the needs of anyone else.  The Shulamite woman must have understood one thing.  The only reason why the King wanted her is because he loved her.  There was no impediment to his love like money, or occupation or family.  He was the King.  Some say that love that comes without money is pure love.  I disagree.  That love can very well be attached to the fact that financially you are needed for an upgrade.  The love of a King is not dependent on you being able to do anything for them.  The Shulamite was not the daughter of some great king so there was no political advantage.  She had no money.  Her family was not great and her father was dead.  The only thing that attracted him to the Shulamite woman was her beauty.  Her beauty is the one thing she diminished.  She said she was black because her brothers made her keeper of the vineyard.  Nothing in her registered that the King loved her anyway.  That is the love of a King