Wonder Woman!

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

I am a fixin’ to go to meddlin’ here. I feel that many women seek a career to find favor. They think they have no identity or worth unless they have a career so they seek an identity and worth in that career. Trust me, in the modern workplace favor is indeed deceitful. You can be the fair-haired boy or gal on one day and fired or laid off the next. Your subordinate may one day be your boss as you are passed over time and again all the while receiving praise and good performance reports. Trying to obtain favor and climb the ladder has been the downfall of many a person. It has destroyed their lives and those they love. It has brought about the destruction of the family as much as any other cause whether it is the man or the woman that is ladder conscious.

I could go on for a very long time about the beauty thing, but I will defer for now. Suffice it to say that no matter what you do beauty will fade and it is a useless or vain thing on which to attach your worth or goals. Holy women are beautiful forever internally and it will reflect itself outwardly if you attend more to the internal. Women spend hours and countless dollars on the outward. If they only expended half as much effort on their inward beauty Cindy Crawford would look like an old tired hag in comparison.

It cannot be said any better than what verse thirty says. Praise and favor that comes from God is priceless, eternal and true. Seek that praise, as you fear the Lord.

31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. (KJV)

One thing about her self-employment, she has no glass ceiling. She writes her own paycheck. She succeeds by her own performance and sets her own hours. She gets the rewards of her labor and her reputation is good in the city even to the local government. Hmm, sounds like freedom and power to me.

I see no disrespect here or keep them barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen mentality. Within the realms of her role there is great freedom and power. She was still submissive to her husband, but I do not see where that hindered her very much. We are not told, but it is obvious from the content that her husband was a godly man that was fulfilling his role correctly and not using her as a door mat or abusing his headship. That is the rub. Both sexes need to be fulfilling their roles correctly for the individuals, the marriage and the family to blossom in God’s love.

Today, it is either one or none that are fulfilling God’s design and our society is what we have to show for it. If you like what we are seeing in our society then continue on as you are or support others to continue. If you do not like it then maybe you need to rethink some things and take some attitudes and actions to the Book and to prayer and ask God for wisdom. We may need to seek "the old paths." Jeremiah 6:16

Are you a virtuous woman? Are you using the power and talents you have or are you sitting on your duff? You can whine for what you don’t have or use what you have to the best of your ability and in God’s supernatural ability and find more success and fulfillment than you have ever known. If you choose to whine at least have the courtesy to serve cheese. If you seek to use what you have then You go, Girl!!! More power to you!!!