Thursday, September 18 || LORD, LET ME NOT TEAR DOWN MY HOME!

Honey Drops for Every Soul
Sep 18
2 min read

Read : I Kings 16:31-33; 21: 25-26

“The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.” - Proverbs 14:1

The Bible has many examples of women who were not like the ideal virtuous woman of Proverbs 31. Eve, for example, was created to be a helper for Adam, her husband, but she became a tempter to him. When Satan tempted her, not only did she fall into sin, but she tempted her husband also to sin. Potiphar’s wife was an example of unfaithfulness. (Genesis 39) She tempted Joseph to have illicit relationship with her while her husband was away. Jezebel is another example of a woman who exerted her evil influence on her husband Ahab, the king of Israel. She was an ungodly woman who stirred up her husband to follow idolatry practices, to worship Baal and to set up altars and temples for him. Job’s wife is an example of the one who was weak in faith. She discouraged her husband in times of adversity rather than to encourage his spirit. She must have been a godly wife to Job once, but somehow she lost her faith in God through the severe testing that came to Job’s family. In Job2:9, she said to Job, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!” .

We can keep on adding to this list of foolish women – Lot’s wife, David’s wife Michal, Anania’s wife Sapphira, the five foolish virgins and so on.

Dear friends, these examples are mentioned as warnings to us.  We may live in a modern age; we may have good education, good job but it is not enough if we are wise and prudent only in worldly matters.  Let us remember that God has given us, women, an important role in building up our family in Christian values.  So let us not live as women of the world, but as women with whom the Lord is well pleased.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, let the examples of such unfaithful, nagging and greedy women mentioned in the Bible be a warning to me. Let me not be a person who would break my family, but let me build it on the strong foundation of Jesus. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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