Proverbs 31:31
Give her of the fruit of her hands;
and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Don't tell me about your success -
SHOW ME!
On this final Woman's Work Wednesday of the Year,
we read the last comment about the Virtuous Woman.
This exemplary woman does not have to brag about her virtue,
the successes of her life speak for themselves.
Look at her life - kind, calm, prepared, successful, modest, hard-working.
Listen to those she has touched - husband, children, servants, poor, needy.
The proofs of your successes and/or failures are all around you.
You do not have to tell me about your greatness - I will be able to see it.
Do folks turn to you for stability?
Do they know that you are unflappable (because you are relying on THE ROCK)?
Are your home and family in order?
Are you known for your kindness and generosity?
Do you stand behind your husband and have a stake in his success?
Do you live what you preach?
James 3:11-18
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place
sweet water and bitter?
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
either a vine, figs?
so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
let him shew out of a good conversation
his works with meekness of wisdom.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above,
but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is,
there is confusion and every evil work.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace
of them that make peace.
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