Day 31 - Chapter 31

Day 31 - Chapter 31

Proverbs 31: 30“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised”.

Have you ever met someone who is amazingly beautiful on the outside until you get to know them, not only does the inner self seem ugly, but their out appearance seems to be less appealing as well. I know that when God radiant’s in your life you are amazingly beautiful inside and out. Society says that we must act, look and dress a certain way to maintain respect from others. We have allowed the world to shape our minds into believing this. Instead we need to get back to what God says, we are beautiful because he made us and we begin to shine with his love that pours out from us into others- that’s what makes us beautiful!

Psalms 139:13-16
oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother's womb.
I thank you, High God - your breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration- what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book you watched me grow
from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared,
before I'd even live one day

When we walk in Gods light- we shine with it. Like John Wesley says, “Catch on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.”
I began to study Proverbs 31, 6 months before I got married. I wanted to become the wife, mom and child that God has created me to be. This is always and will be forever a work in progress, thankfully! I love and appreciate that God continues to teach me, be patient with me and love me always.
I remember the first time I read this chapter- ah! That’s a lot to live up to??? Any modern day woman can see that. But what I discovered is; that it is more than possible as long as follow the path that God has set out for us – than it’s an amazingly peaceful journey - to be exactly who God created me to be.

This chapter- in modern day society, most likely, offends many women. That’s because we have taken God out of the picture. We have allowed to few, feminist, to speak for all woman and claim that we want equality for men and women – they fear the word submit. I look at the word submit as another way of saying, respect. Some of my friends joke about me, that I belong in the 50’s because I am so old fashion…. I don’t look at it as being old fashion but as being who God created Britney to be as a wife and a mom and most importantly His child.

Wives and Husbands Ephesians 5:22- 33

22Wives, submit to your husband’s as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."[c] 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

See how amazingly, loving this is… I know that if you marry a godly man that your hearts will be the same as God, which only means that the submitting to your husband, is submitting to God… And you read the passage above, your husband will than love you as God loves you and nothing less.