Hi, Wife, my name is danielle and I welcome you here!
The woman of virtue—commonly known as The Proverbs 31 woman—is such a buzzphrase in Christian culture, isn’t it? Just about every Christian woman, has talked about her at one time or another. Maybe some of us have even made her into an idol.
But what makes a woman of virtue?
Perhaps you find that to be a silly question. She is the ideal woman, most of us look on at the chapter and would agree in unison. She juggles it all with ease, and serves the Lord—the men now look on and would agree, she’s got it all! Cooking, cleaning, managing her time, are only some of the things that she did. She even considers a field and buys it, proving that she is a business woman.
Maybe you even copy her behavior and consider yourself a woman of virtue. I know I did at one time!
Wife, choose to look at the ancient piece of text with new eyes!
Yes, she “did it all,” but I believe we have been looking at this woman’s life all wrong and perhaps abusing the legacy of her life. Before any of the things she did, it talks about the relationship she had with her husband.
Verse 11 – 12 says,
Her husband has full confidence in her
and lacks nothing of value.
She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life.
Nothing she did later in this chapter, in my opinion, was out of the realm of doing good for the man she called her husband—the government instituted by God and comparable to none other. There’s a reason the heading of this chapter is titled A Wife of Noble Character. Nothing she did that we would consider good and great and grand was out of the realm of doing good for this man who held this holy title in her world.
I heard a story once of a woman using the exert she considers a field and purchases it to justify going behind her husband’s back to purchase an expensive piece of property. Yes, that sounds wild to most of us. But what about the rest of us who don’t bat an eyelash and rebel against this God-given leadership in our lives when we disagree? Not only that, but we do it daily!
“Leadership. Rebellion,” Some reading this now may be questioning? What does my husband’s leadership and my rebellion have to do with the woman of virtue?”
With a resounding, state of panic and urgency in my voice I would reply to you, Wife: EVERYTHING! It has everything to do with the woman of virtue. If you desire to become a woman of virtue, you have got to do good for your husband which consists of putting an end to being a source of bad in his life.
Do you desire to be a true woman of virtue as I once did? If you want to read my story, you can do so HERE or GET STARTED HERE!