Wisdom Wednesday-Proverbs 31:30
In case you have not heard the hype on the news and on social media sites, I figured I better let you know that today is International Women’s Day. I don’t plan on touching on the politics of that issue today however I decided to focus my Wisdom Wednesday Proverb on well, a woman!
Proverbs 31:30 declares, “Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
Charm is deceitful.
Have you ever been around that person that just is knocks-your-socks-off-nice to your face? I have and those people scare me to death! They have to be hiding something is usually my first thought.
And it’s not unusual to find out later that they are just putting up a nice front for some reason or another. The sugar-sweet attitude often does hide what is really going on in a woman’s life whether it is a hurt heart or a proud spirit or a gossiping tongue, eventually her true colors will show.
As a Christian woman, I try to NOT sugar coat everything. Life is messy and it is okay to let people know that! I’m not saying we just mope around all day and complain, but I think it is necessary to not turn up the charm button just to make sure we are keeping up appearances either! This is especially true when in a safe Christian community of believers.
Beauty is vain.
My grandma was quite the looker in her younger days. I can totally see why she caught my Grandpa’s eye! 🙂 But I never would have recognized her in the younger day pictures if my parent’s hadn’t told me it was her. Why? Because by the time I came along, she had gray hair, a slump in her shoulders from years of hard work in her garden, and a considerable amount of laugh lines gracing her face. Did that make her any less beautiful to my Grandpa? Not at all. He was more in love with her than ever because her beauty came from who she was, not what she looked like on the outside.
Having a daughter of my own now, I pray that I can live out my life and show her the same beauty my Grandma demonstrated to me. A quiet beauty that resides within a confident, consistent relationship with God. All the rest of that outside stuff fades away!
A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Today is a day to celebrate women. Well, let’s celebrate them.
Let this be a day to praise the women in your life who have had a strong spiritual impact on you. Perhaps your mom or grandma or a Sunday school teacher or a kind neighbor or a Bible study friend. Whoever she is, let her know that her walk with God has had an impact on you.
Thank God for each woman in your life who has helped lead you closer to Him. Pray that God helps you to be that woman to those in your life now.
Recommended Reading
God has a heart for womanhood that looks drastically different than what our culture says it looks like. This collection of short essays from Elisabeth Elliot details what Christian womanhood truly looks like, no matter what stage of life you are currently walking through. It is gentle and conversational and simply wonderful!
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
This is a big book filled with important essays on what Biblical manhood and womanhood were created to be. In a world where gender is viewed as fluid and even unimportant, this book highlights so many wonderful reasons that God did create us male and female! Best of all, it lays out the framework for how God designed men and women for complimentary roles to each other in a way that definitely blew my mind. It is a long read but very worth it!
Your Turn
I would love to hear about the women who have impacted you!
Please feel free to share their stories in the comments.
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