This morning in my Bible reading, I read Proverbs 31. As I was reading through the verses about the virtuous woman in verses 10-31 it got me thinking. In the past when I've read the verses or heard about them, the only thought that ever comes to mind is a married woman. Well what about me? I'm single. Can't I be a virtuous woman? Can't these verses apply to me. True the verses about her husband and her children won't apply as I don't have any, but what about the rest? What about the verses where it talks about her work to provide for her family. I have to work to provide for myself. She's a women who keeps herself busy doing work for her family. I don't have family, but I have a church family. Why can't I keep myself busy doing things for them? Doing things for the Lord?
I had to read verse 30 a couple of different times. "Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." That verse does apply to me! I want to be (and hope I am) one that feareth the Lord. While I don't necessarily want praise for the work I do, I do hope that the work I can do can be a blessing to someone. Verse 31 says, "Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates."
I have said in the past that I have time on my hands that someone who is married with kids doesn't have. Why don't I use that time? I hope that when I move to Sackville, that maybe I can better use some of that time to help my church family, as I will be living much closer to them!
True I still have a desire to get married and have children, but I am content with being single and in the position that I am. I know this is what God has for me and if he has for me to get married, he will show that to me in his time. Paul says in I Corinthians 7:7-8 "For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I."
Being single is a good thing and I can, with God's help, do my best to be that Virtuous Woman.
