Proverbs 31:11-12 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God Says …

“Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.” (Proverbs 31:11-12 NIV)

Here is a picture of an ideal woman this mother of a king is urging her son to seek out for a wife. She is faithful and trustworthy. Her husband is able to focus on his role not having to worry of her comings and goings. She is the wife, a true helper to him, as God designed her to be from the beginning, when He instituted marriage in the garden (Genesis 2:18). She is valuable, being the best half of the union of two persons made into one (Matthew 19:5-6).

Her mission is to make her husband the man that he should and must be - well favored in the fullness of his being - noble and pleasing to God. Not just in a moment or in a season, but for the rest of their lives together. She is the woman behind his success. With such a woman as a wife, what husband would go astray? She is the antithesis of Jezebel who orchestrated the ungodly rule of her husband king Ahab of Israel, turning him to worship her pagan God. This virtuous woman is unlike all other women who brought downfall and shame to their husbands.

This is the woman of lofty ideals by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. When God presented Eve to Adam, she was perfectly clothe in God's grace. She lifted Adam's spirit to full confidence of affection and praise. Before their fall, she bore the embodiment of a truly virtuous woman. It is written: “And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:22-24 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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