Proverbs 31
The good woman: A manager, industrious, skilful, shrewd, enterprising, kind, giving, a counsellor, a mother, pleases her husband and has a strong faith in God.
As a man, I like this list. I approve of it!
I wonder how many married, single, mothers, childless women have made the Proverbs 31 woman their aim in life.
I wonder how many have become disappointed.
I wonder how many men are not married because they are waiting to find this Proverbs 31 woman.
I wonder how many married men are disappointed.
Finally, I wonder how many women are lined up in heaven waiting to give this mother of King Lemuel a slap!
However, the mother did tell her son that this kind of woman is hard to find.
We might want to add … nigh impossible!
How do you find perfection? Who is perfect?
Even this perfect woman’s list isn’t perfect. There is little advice on the relationship between the wife and her husband.
So maybe it will never be possible to be the perfect.
I feel quite happy to leave being perfect to someone else because I know I will never achieve it. Is it not better to let the perfect One be perfect and for us to live in the shadow of that perfection?
Let’s not tear out the list.
Let’s just aim to be the shadow.
The shadow is not that of the image of a woman.
The shadow is that of the cross: an image more beautiful than the Proverbs 31 woman.
Missions Paul 