Even though it doesn’t look like it and even though we may feel like people ‘use’ us more than they ‘thank’ us, serve anyway with a pure heart because the day is coming when the praise will be forthright, overwhelming and uplifting. There will come a day when our children will call us blessed and happy and fortunate and they will want what we have because we love and live well (not the money stuff, the heart stuff). There will come a day when our husbands (the right ones chosen by God) will see us for who we are and say the things that let us know that they not only love us, but they see us, and respect us too.
In my eyes the sum of beauty is found in the last three verses, they are three lovely things to say about woman . . .
#1) Excellence Costs, but It Pays For Itself. He will say that many daughters have done virtuously, nobly and well, but you excel them all.
#2) The Wisdom is in the Worship. He will notice that ‘charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain, but’ you are ‘a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord’ and ‘shall be praised!’
#3) Diligences Speaks for Herself. He will notice your efforts and he will say, ‘Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates of the city!’
Remember this: being married does not make you a PRO 31 (a virtuous woman), the way that you live does. You become a PRO 31 by choice and over the course of time you demonstrate it by lifestyle.
So have at it sister.
-MizJAI
Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied); and her husband boasts of and praises her, [saying], “Many daughters have done virtuously, nobly, and well, but you excel them all. Charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain, but a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised! Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates of the city!” PRO 31:28-31
