The virtuous She

The virtuous woman who can find? For her worth is far above the rubies.
A couple of weeks ago, I had an opportunity to share in a church in town during a ladies conference. As you can almost guess, the theme was on proverbs 31 She. I focused only on two verses, vs 10 and vs 25
A virtuous woman who can find? For her worth is far more than the rubies...
Vs 25, She is clothed in dignity and strength and she will laugh in the days to come.
The biggest Q in my teaching was who then is a virtuous woman? Are they even there? And if they are,Where do you find her?  The noble woman in this chapter does many things that most of us can't seem to even reach half of. She is an entrepreneur, she is a homemaker, she works with her hands to make flax, she has helps but she wakes up so early to prepare her households. She considers a field and buys, she plants vineyard, fetches her food from afar etc. I ask myself how this is possible for a single woman who by all means doesn't even need to work because her husband is a respectable and wealthy man and her attitude appals me.
Then two things came out strongly during my preparation for the teaching.
The divine positioning of this She and the source of her strength. Just like the rubies, which are deep seated in the earth's ground, not on the surface to be accessed by just any person, the virtuous woman is divinely positioned and hidden in Christ. She is so hidden than a man has to first seek the heart of Christ to find her. And clearly, its only a man who is resilient to search deep and tenacious enough will be able to find her. The Lord,has her so hidden in His wings because she has made the Lord God her habitation and she dwells in the shelter of the Almighty, Psams 91.
The second thing is her supernatural strength to accomplish a to do list than most of us can't even half. And I realised that the source of her magnificent strength had to be mundane. The virtuous woman knows all too well that the flesh may fail her, but the Lord is the strength of her heart, her everlasting portion, psalms 73:26.
She also understands that even young men who are perceived to be strong may grow faint at heart but they that wait upon the Lord,their strength they shall renew and like eagles mount on high, Isaiah 40.28.

And for the married men who were in the gathering of His people, a simple remainder for them was to pray for their wives to find strength in God like Jonathan helped David at Mt Horesh during the battle with his father.

A virtuous woman always reminds herself every morning before facing the world that she can do all things through Christ who strengthens her. Yes, ALL THINGS!
And as Paul writes to the Philippians, her nobility is pegged on her character and virtues he shares in 4:6 she focuses on what's true,noble,right,pure,lovely,admirable and praiseworthy!
We may not be there yet, but we are slowly being made!
Be glad sweet girlie, You may not be a girl that everyone likes but the good thing is that you are not the girl everyone had!