Proverbs 31 is it too outdated for us 2010 modern day women??? I think not! When I go through this proverb and dissect it line by line for my own personal understanding I say wow up before dark to make food for my family? Buy things of great value? Sew my family’s clothes? Bring my husband good and not harm? Open my arms to the poor and needy? Walk around with strength, dignity, wisdom, confidence? These do not sound like a woman of today. No I think fast food, prepared meals, nannies , store bought clothes, disgrace and dishonor to husbands, the needy are gross, dirty people who they tell their children to avoid at all cost, women who are arrogant and prideful who think they too are a man and must be treated equally as one or else!!
So then I ask myself what must I change about myself to line up with this proverb that God gave us women as a guideline to be virtuous and worth far more then rubies? Isn’t this just what we are looking for anyway to be valued, to be loved, to be thought of as precious and honorable? I think so. So I see that it is my heart that must change before I even think about my daily routine and actions. I must love my God enough to trust Him that what He gave me as a guideline on how to be virtuous, beautiful, confident, strong and wisdom filled is what I should strive for. It is what will make me more precious than rubies to my husband and honorable to society.
So in what some women think of as outdated or politically incorrect we find the very thing that God has given us as a picture of a virtuous, beautiful, confident, strong and wisdom filled women. I am willing to look weird and strange to the entire female population and society at large in order to look right and acceptable to God, how about you?
Posted by Mom on November 2, 2009 at 11:40 am
WOW! I am impressed and blessed with your thoughts about being a virtuous woman. I think our society is very different from the time that this proverb was written. For example we dont need to make our clothes, but we still can be thrifty in our purchases and if necessary we can make them. I do see that we as women need to take care of our husbands, clothes, food and care for the house, these responsibilites have not changed. Whats changed is the way women look at their role as a wife. And I think the whole womens lib movement drastically effected that. No more ‘betty crocker” wife, that was degrading for some women, not all of us, thank God.
I believe if we follow Proverbs 31 as best we can our husbands, children and society as a whole will be effected and hopefully we can convert some of these “womens libbers”!
YOU GO GIRL!!