Proverbs 31 is it too outdated for us 2010 modern day women???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So in what some women think of as outdated or politically incorrect we find the very thing that God has given us as a picture of a virtuous, beautiful, confident, strong and wisdom filled women.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?
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