Proverbs 31:10 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God Says …

“Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.” (Proverbs 31:10 KJV)

King Lemuel's mom posed a rhetorical question to affirm her counsel for her son not to waste his virtues and strength on excessive drinking of strong wine and of chasing women. Instead, she urged him to spend his time finding an excellent woman for a wife, "to love and behold 'til death do they part." A woman who is a portrait of moral and spiritual strength is what every man should devote their pursuit to find. Yet indeed, a virtuous woman of great value, full of life and purity, who can find?

This is a woman exactly opposite the world's ideal woman of superficial character. This woman pursues God. Like Ruth in the Old Testament time, who honored the memory of her dead husband by loving and respecting her mother-in-law as she would, even better than her own mother. So, this woman is a rare specie and precious than rubies, indeed - an unjust valuation. She is priceless! She is one of a kind. She is hard to find. She is the kind of woman any mother wants her son to have as a wife.

This woman is a model for all women who trust in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Like Ruth, whose deep kinship with her mother-in-law, was bonded by her declaration of faith in the God of Naomi. She was a personification of loyalty. She’s an exemplar specimen for women and men to follow. Especially for God’s children by grace through faith in Christ Jesus, her story is a source of strength. She was pressed by Naomi to go home to her pagan family. “But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”” (Ruth 1:16-17 ESV)

And I say, AMEN!

Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries

(When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.)

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