30-Day 'True Woman' Make-over Day 10

Today's topic is: THE FRUIT OF HER HANDS
Today's verse is Proverbs 31:10 - "Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character -- A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies."

WOW! We have made it through the first 9 verses of warnings from Lemuel's mother, and now we are starting to learn about the wife of noble character, the 'virtuous woman'. Some women see her as the 'virtual woman', something or someone that cannot be attained by the ordinary every-day woman of today. But as our topic today states, any woman can lead a life of noble character and have a fruitful life as well. Unfortunately, too many of us try to strive, perform, struggle and even try to outdo other women in our lives, like this 'virtuous woman' found in Proverbs 31:10-31. We are not to become exactly like this woman, we are supposed to become the M.E. that God has called us to be individually. Our M.E. is our MAXIMUM EFFECTIVENESS (or in other words our potential). We have to live up to our potential, not that of another woman. This 'virtuous woman' found in Scripture is just a 'pattern' to follow. Nancy Leigh DeMoss also quotes, "The purpose of this picture, in part, is to help us see that we can’t live up to it, that we cannot measure up to it." (You can read more of Nancy's devotion here). We cannot do this alone in our own strength, each of us are not called to be seamstresses, or to have ALL the domestic characteristics of the 'woman of noble character'. We need God! All we need is more of God, and He will help us become who He created and called us to be. There is a quote that says something like, "God has hand-crafted each one of us, not mass produced us."


Today's verse, "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies", is where Lemuel's mother is admonishing her son to look for a wife that is as noble as she is trying to train him to be. Somewhere in the world there is ONE woman who will fulfill the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs just for HIM.


to be continued... gotta go back to work!!


When we surrender and submit our lives to God, He can and will do the miraculous in our lives. The last verse in our study, Proverbs 31:31 says this, "Give her of the fruit of her hands, And let her own works praise her in the gates." We will be rewarded, and basically reap what we sow in the end. If we sow into our lives, and others lives with the same spiritual characteristics that this 'virtuous woman' did, then the 'fruit of our hands' or the fruit of our labour will bring forth an amazing harvest!