May. 17, 2006 - "A Prudent wife is from the Lord..."
I was reading the 19th Proverb the other morning in my quiet time when I ran across verse 14...
"House and riches are the inheritance of fathers:
and a prudent wife is from the Lord."
~ Proverbs 19:14 (KJV)
and a prudent wife is from the Lord."
~ Proverbs 19:14 (KJV)
I'm drawn to Scripture verses about husbands and wives and marriage now that I have the joy of being Travis' wife. As I was reading along, this verse stuck out to me especially when it listed prudence as being the defining quality in this wife who is from the Lord. I wondered what the text meant here by, "a prudent wife"... So, as my mother so wisely taught me to do as a young girl, I pulled out my Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and procedeed to just look it up!
The Hebrew meaning of "prudent":
Still, I have such grand dreams of what I desire to be as a completer and little wifey to my honey, that I can end up being quite overwhelmed and discouraged when I fall short at times. That's why I've always appreciated something Elisabeth Elliot-Gren shares often...
The Hebrew meaning of "prudent":- intelligent, expert, instruct, prosper, deal, skillful, have good success, teach, to make to understand, wisdom, behave self wisely, guide wittingly.
Still, I have such grand dreams of what I desire to be as a completer and little wifey to my honey, that I can end up being quite overwhelmed and discouraged when I fall short at times. That's why I've always appreciated something Elisabeth Elliot-Gren shares often...
"Just do the next thing."
What an encouragement!! It's so silly of me to think that at the end of my quiet time every morning I will somehow be transformed into this super wife to beat all super wives, dripping with abundant amounts of humility, wisdom, compassion, and of course and the ability to be able to read my husband's mind! I simply need to remember that I just need to do the "next thing"...
May we all be encouraged and blessed by this thought as we go about our lives today!
Have a beautiful day in the LORD, my dear friends.
Have a beautiful day in the LORD, my dear friends.
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May. 17, 2006 - A Prudent wife
Posted by Mom
I once did a study myself on the prudent wife. The word "prude" comes from prudent. It means: One who shows or affects extreme modesty. How prude ever got to have such a bad connotation, we'll never know. Someone long ago once called me a prude...and I smiled and said Thank you!!
Hugs,
Mom
