Far Above Rubies: Proverbs 31:30

"She maketh herself coverings of tapestry;
her clothing is silk and purple."
Proverbs 31:22

From my readings I have gathered that this verse is here to show the Virtuous Woman's fine taste and her efforts to really please the eye of her husband. This woman not only works outside, but she works inside by making these types of things. "Jack of All Trades" comes to mind. While these days it is oftentimes more cost-effective to buy from stores, we still should be willing to work with our hands when the need arises.

"Her clothing is silk and purple" - her family was not poor it seems. She is wearing fine clothing and I'm going to go ahead and assume she takes care of herself. I don't think silk and purple equates to sweats and t-shirt... of which I am definitely guilty! I don't know about you all but I sometimes just get lazy and throw on whatever I can find without much of a thought. Of course, I don't think there is anything wrong with this, but I also think I should be putting more of an effort to look nice for my husband. I know I didn't go around looking like a slob when we were "courting".

It doesn't take much to "let yourself go", so to speak. Now I'm not saying I look horrible day in and day out but I could do better. I think when you take care of your appearance and take care for what you put on in the morning, you feel better about yourself. And I know that one of the ways the devil really gets to us women is by picking at our self-esteem. There are too many Christian women out there who suffer from low self-esteem and I am here to say this: THAT IS THE DEVIL! The devil loves to tear us down. He loves to make us feel inferior and make us "covet" after the body types or the clothing of those around us. He gets in and so severely attacks our self-esteem that it is all we can think about. We become more focused on Earthly things like perhaps our clothing or our weight or different aspects of our appearance, instead of focusing on Spiritual things. There are so many people out there who put so much effort into these worldly things that they forget what is truly the most important thing for us to make sure is pure and beautiful: our souls.

Now I say this because while yes, you should put forth an effort into how you look {at least those of us who have husbands need to realize we don't need to jip them! ha!}, but there is an extreme you can go to and that is putting too much thought into it. We don't need to spend so much time on our appearance and end up jipping ourselves out on true beauty, Spiritual beauty.

Any husband who wishes to have this virtuous wife I am sure would rather have a spiritually beautiful woman than an outwardly beautiful woman. In fact, if you read on in Proverbs you'll eventually get to this verse:

"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:
but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised."
Proverbs 31:30

I will save my thoughts on that verse for when we get to it, but I felt like it tied in to what I was saying before.

I hope you ladies have been able to understand what I've been trying to say here. I feel like it is all jumbled up and incoherent. If it is - I am so sorry! I am very interested in your thoughts on the subject!

Oh, by the way. I was thinking about what I was going to say on this verse while I was showering, and I made sure to make myself look nice before I sat down and wrote this. How terrible would it have been for me to go on about looking nice for your husband and sit here in my slob garb! Ha!

Y'all have a great week!