Proverbs 31:13: She seeks wool and flax, and willingly works with her hands.
Insight
Finding her deepest joy in loving service, the virtuous wife takes delight in weaving with her own hands the wool and the flax which are to be the clothing for her household. The picture is an Eastern one, but none the less lovely to Western eyes. Kitto says, “Every kind of drapery for the person, the tent, or the house, is manufactured at home by the women, who make it a matter of pride to be able to boast that their husbands and children are entirely clad by the labor of their hands.” 1
Application
So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” Then she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. Ruth 2:2–3
When a woman and/or a wife is no longer known as a busybody, but instead is busy about the Lords work, there is a tremendous blessing that awaits her. Jesus told us to take our focus off the other person and to put it back upon Jesus and follow Him. Ask God to help you grow in your steadfast service for Him without all the social distractions.
Motivation
Be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. Titus 2:5
You will never be a busybody if you’re always busy for Him. – TWEET IT
Prayer
Father, please teach me how to follow You more closely.
1. Ironside, H. A. (1908). Notes on the Book of Proverbs (pp. 473–474). Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Bros.
