The Virtuous Woman, Who is she? Part 2

           Recently, I wrote about the Virtuous Woman and who she is. After much debate in my personal life, I decided to research the topic because I wasn’t sure that many of the persons asking and speaking of the “Virtuous Woman,” actually knew what they were talking about, including me. What I found out about her, “The Virtuous Woman,” is that she is a woman of humility, integrity, strength, courage, sacrifice, patience, diligence, and self worth. “The Virtuous Woman,” in Proverbs 31 is a happily married woman with a family and she is a business owner. Now, before we go any further, let me just say that an unmarried woman can still be a “Virtuous Woman,” you’re just virtuous in waiting :0). The topic that I will target today is one that is most important in order to have a happy marriage as well as a self confident, independent, responsible woman. Proverbs 31 says that of The Virtuous Woman’s husband, “his heart doth safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil, She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life” (proverbs 31:11). The scripture also says that “her husband is known at the gates when he sits among the elders” (Proverbs 3:23), which means this family is one of distinction. The final verse regarding the Virtuous Woman’s husband is one pertaining to the entire family, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also; and he praiseth her” (Proverbs 31:28).

                The Virtuous Woman was virtuous before she was married; her virtue is what attracted her husband to her, meaning that while she was in waiting, she was preparing and working on herself through the Holy Ghost that works to keep her virtuous. However, what has helped the “Virtuous Woman” stay virtuous in her marriage is that she and her husband are partners and lovers in every since of what marriage is meant to be. Marriage is a gift from God uniting not just the flesh together for physical enjoyment, but also uniting and tying the souls together so that the 2 can now become 1. Marriage is meant to be between 1 man and 1 woman for a lifetime, which is illustrated in the scripture Genesis, 2:24, “Therefore shall a man leave his Father and his Mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be 1 flesh.” Nowhere in this scripture does God say that men are to marry more than one woman, you only have 1 soul and that 1 soul ties to the 1 wife that you take to be yours, your gift from God until death do you part. (Parting at death is when the soul separates and prepares for the calling of Heaven or Hell). In Proverbs 31:10-29, the Virtuous Woman has a virtuous family because they are happy and this is evident because the children rise and call her blessed, her husband recognizes that she is a gift because he praises her, which means he compliments her as well as supports her. While he is sitting at the city gate with the elders maintaining his position of authority (Proverbs 31:23), his wife is running her business of family as well as expanding her enterprise, “she considers a field and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard” (Proverbs 31:16). Her husband knows that she does not intend evil for him, therefore making this decision on her own is a decision that suggests her Husband has total confidence in all of her decisions because she did not ask him if she could purchase the field, the scripture says she “Considered a field and buyeth it,” (Proverbs 31:16) Now, for the extremely Holy ones, that are reading this today, according to the Merriam-Websters Dictionary, Consider means “to think about carefully: as to think of especially with regards to taking some action. The Virtuous Woman did this and her husband supported her. In a mature marriage and or a marriage that was committed for the right reasons, there is support between husband and wife which produces evidence through the success of the communication between the two as well as through the results of the children and family unit in general.

 God Bless you,

In Jesus name

                Kokey Lanay