Today’s Devotion
Topic: To The Young Women
Text: Proverbs 31: 29
“Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all.” Amen
Women represent God’s creativity and special skill. They are exceptionally designed to complement all other things created, especially man. They are beautiful to behold, intelligent, graceful in their engagements and able to add a colourful touch to everything without struggle. Women are blessed with a heart sensitive to the plight of others around them and will go every extent to make sure everything turns out good.
She is lovely, kind, affectionate, intelligent, thoughtful, graceful, hardworking and special of all God’s creation. However, like every one of life’s realities, young women have their challenges too: She needs education or training to find a great job that allows her support her life and family.
Then comes the responsibility of choosing a life partner from the lot who “apply for vacancy” every week. Right after marriage, comes childbirth and the responsibility to raise her children to fear God.
In the process of life, a young woman may struggle emotionally with issues of acceptance, abuse, low self-esteem, anxieties and disappointments. Her mood may swing with her natural cycle making her difficult to predict. Physically, her body undergoes several changes with the events of time, especially after childbirth, and that bothers her.
To complicate matters the more, a modern day young woman needs exceptional grace from God to make it through life. She must work very hard to keep her body in shape and her mind active all the time.
Otherwise she stands the risk of losing her dear husband to ungodly women. She must also meet the demands of her job and execute her duties without fail.
At home, she must serve and please her husband, raise her children to fear the Lord and keep her family knitted together. If she knows the Lord, then her diligence in serving the Lord holds her world together lest she gives in to depression and bitterness.
There are many daughters who are doing well, but Christian women are to excel them all. The standard of a virtuous woman is not what the western world defines through their movies and soap operas, but what the bible says in Proverbs 31: 10- 31.
From the Bible perspective, a virtuous woman is one who gives and not one programmed only to receive. She receives strength and wisdom from the Lord to bless her household. She helps her husband rather than burden him. She is not created a weaker link whose definition, joy, aspirations, drive and enthusiasm must only come from a man.
Like the man, she is also created in the image of God with intelligence, wisdom and strength, plus that exceptional grace and beauty to complete a man. She doesn’t fight for and crave attention, equality and material things as the telenovelas depict her to be.
“The heart of her husband safely trusts her; she does him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and willingly works with her hands. She also rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household. She considers a field and buys it from her profits. She girds herself with strength, and extends her hand to the poor. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness. She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” (Excerpts from Prov 31: 10- 31)
Pray for all young women. Our sisters, fiancées, nieces, daughters, wives, mothers, pastor’s wives, etc. They are special to all. Pray that godliness becomes their hallmark. That they may rise above cosmetic beauty and idleness to becoming a blessing to this generation and posterity.
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