Happy Friyay! I am excited to share what I have learned about being a virtuous woman from Proverbs 31: 28-29. I found so many good thoughts just from reading those verses and looking at Bible commentaries.
From these verses I learned:
Little Eyes are watching you.
Your Husband wants to praise your excellence.
Be Jesus to your family.
Isn’t this verse just goals for motherhood and being a wife.
In the Benson Commentary it says: “Her children arise up – Whose testimony is the more considerable, because they have been constant eye witnesses of her whole conduct and therefore, must have seen her misdemeanors, if there had been any, as well as her virtues.”
Our children are our CONSTANT eye witnesses.
We can put on a show for the church ladies, but our kids see us when we are on the phone and they just knocked their plate on the floor while karate kicking their brother. 😉
They SEE how we react, either with godly correction spirit or “momma is about to lose it” spirit.
Her husband praises her.
Just like our children, our husbands see the true us.
And just like with our children – when we are repeating ourselves for the 16th time to our husband. We SHOULD say it with kindness. 😉
It is our small actions that we do everyday that we will be remembered by with our children and husband.
“The words of praise which the husband in Proverbs 31:28 is supposed to have addressed to the ideal wife.” -Barnes Notes on the Bible
The ESV Bible says – “many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”
The NIV Bible says – “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”
Notice her husband praises her… the world doesn’t praise her…. the church doesn’t praise her…. her friends do not praise her… Whose praise are we living for?
In her husband’s eyes, she surpasses them all. As a wife and mother we are to serve Christ first, then our husband and children.
There is no grading agenda for what level of excellence you are at as a wife. Each family has different needs and seasons they go through.
A virtuous woman serves her family as Jesus would. We have to be Jesus to our family before we can truly be Jesus to anyone else.
So remember:
Little eyes are watching you.
Your husband wants to praise your excellence.
Be Jesus to your family.
~Gracefully Fashionable Britt