Hello friends! I must apologize for not posting anything for a couple months. For some reason my email address is linked with Google which disabled me to log in to my blogger account. :( I can finally log in and I am thrilled with the thought of being able to write again! :) For the couple months I have not been writing, I have been pondering what I should write about. As a young woman, my desire is to save my heart purely and completely for my future husband. I have read a couple books on this subject. One of them is "Before you meet Prince Charming" by Sarah Mally. The other is "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" by Joshua Harris. They are both amazing books regarding purity for young women. Th second book by Joshua Harris is also appropriate for young men. :)
Any who, I have decided to write each day, for 31 days, on each of the 31 verses in Proverbs 31! Proverbs 31 is a great chapter talking about a virtuous woman. It is a whole chapter of King Lemuel's mother giving him advice on how to know if a woman is virtuous. This can go for both guys and girls. For the guys, this will teach them what to look out for in a girl. The guys make the first move so it has to be a good one! For the girls, this will teach them what a virtuous woman should look like. All girls should strive to be this type of woman! We are not perfect. But these are God's words to us, so we must strive to obey them. So.... let's start! :)
"The words of King Lemuel, the utterance which his mother taught him:"
~Proverbs 31:1~
Some people believe that King Lemuel is a different name for King Solomon, while others believe the writing of King Lemuel is just of the same nature as Solomon's, therefore it is put into the book of Proverbs. The first 9 verses of chapter 31 is advice from his mother on the dangers of the lurking temptations in the world. This first verse is the introduction to these 9 verses of advice. First it says, "the words of King Lemuel", which means these are the writings of Lemuel. What are his writings? His writings are "the utterance which his mother taught him." To me, I can already see a virtuous woman characteristic. Lemuel's mother is teaching her son things of God. Mothers, as well as fathers, must teach their children. I believe a mother's primary role is to teach her children. The father is the head of the household and does teach from the Bible. He is the ultimate teacher in the house. However, in our day and age, while the father is at work, what should the mother be doing? She should be teaching her children. Not just education by the world's standards, but education by God's standards. She must teach her children the things of the Lord and how to live a godly life. I believe Lemuel's mother is doing that here. Everything she says in Chapter 31 of Proverbs is her advice to her son. Who knows, she may have been speaking all of this to her other children as well. I also like the fact that Lemuel wrote "which his mother taught him." He very well could have not added that into his writing. The fact that he acknowledge's his mother, is very humble. I am certain that even now, we can looks back and see how much we owe to our mothers. Everything they taught us, we will be able to put to use. Sometimes I have a hard time seeing that, myself. Sometimes I think, "Oh I won't use that in my day to day life!" But then most of the time I end up wrong. I may find myself in a circumstance where I used that much needed advice.
Mothers are important in one's life. I know some people do not have mothers in their life. Or maybe they do, but she is not a good role model. But we (ladies) can use use this example in the Bible as our guide to be role models for our children someday. It is no excuse to say that because you did not have a mother or because she wasn't a good role model, that you cannot strive to be that good example to your future children. Let's keep this advice in our back pocket for when God makes us wives and then mothers! :)
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