Importance of Obedience

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The Third Day relates to Exodus 19:5


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How to Find Rest

God is Worthy of my trust and obedience.
I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will.


Elisabeth Elliott


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Trust

Trust the past to God's MERCY, the present to God's LOVE and the future to God's PROVIDENCE,


St. Augustine


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In Perfect Peace

Isaiah 26:3 MSG

The Message

People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet,

because they keep at it and don't quit.

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Trust & Obey

Trust & Obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.


John H. Sammis


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Set Me Free by Myron Butler and Levi

Loyalty

Never let loyalty and kindness leave you!
Proverbs 3:3

Compassion is for everyone

The Lord is good to everyone.
He showers compassion.
on all His creation.
-Psalms 145:9

Sympathy & Compassion

His is a Loving, Tender hand, full of SYMPATHY and COMPASSION.
-Dwight L. Moody




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How Much Do You Care? Really

People don't care how much we know until they know how much we CARE.
-Joe Aldrich

Compassion to Compassionate

"You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate".
-Luke 6:36

Tools for A Kind Nature

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
-Colossians 3:12

Courtesy .... Kindness

He who sows Courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
St Basil.

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Fountain of Gladness

A kind heart is a foundation of Gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
-Washington Irving

Kindness

Kindness is a behavior marked by ethical characteristics, a pleasant disposition, and concern for others. It is known as a virtue, and recognized as a value in many cultures and religions


The Christian apostle Paul lists kindness as one of the nine traits considered to be the
"fruit of the Spirit" ^[11] in Galatians 5:22.

Kindness & Compassion

Seek to cultivate a buoyant,
joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses
of God in your daily life.
-Alexander MacLaren

Compassion

Compassion is the emotion that we feel in response to the suffering of others that motivates a desire to help

Good Mother's

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my Good Mother
-Charles H. Spurgeon

Woman / Women of Hope

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him. 
He enables us to be Women of Hope. (Thank You Jesus)
-Elizabeth George

Indebtedness to Women

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for LIFE itself, and then for making it worth having.
-Christian N. Bovee'

ALL THAT I AM

All That I Am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
-Abraham Lincoln

A Capable Wife/Woman

Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? 
She is more precious than rubies?
Proverbs 31:10

Who can find a virtuous woman?

The first part of verse 10 literally reads, "Who can find a woman of strength?"  
The term "virtuous" is from a noun meaning strength, efficiency, ability. 
Here it refers to strength of character, that is, moral strength and firmness.

For her price is far above rubies.

She is far more valuable and worth far more than rubies.
The Hebrew term for "rubies" may not refer to rubies, but may refer to pink pearls or red coral.
A pink pearl which was found in a mollusk in the Red Sea was considered of great value to the ancients. 


It is difficult to know exactly which stone or pearl this Hebrew word referred to, but its usage in the Old Testament tells us two things for sure:


1)  It was very valuable (see Proverbs 20:15 and Job 28:18); 
2)  It was reddish in color (Lamentations 4:7--"ruddy").

Who can find a virtuous woman (a woman of strength)?  She is like a rare gem. 
Precious stones are precious and costly because they are so rare.
If you could go out along the roadside and collect hundreds of rubies anytime you wanted to, then they would not be worth much.  It is the rare, hard to find gems that are worth so much. 
Also, for some reason God made most common stones unattractive;
yet He made most rare stones very beautiful and brilliant and lustrous. 


The virtuous woman is a beautiful woman, not necessarily outwardly, but certainly inwardly
(see Prov. 31:30).  She is not only a rare gem but a beautiful gem.

A godly woman is rare and very hard to find.  The same thing could be said about the godly man.
Number one on the endangered species list is the Homo sapiens pious*: 
"Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men" (Psalm 12:1).  
 There are hardly any such creatures around, and the few that do exist will eventually die out! 
May God in His infinite grace and mercy be pleased to raise up godly men and women in these difficult and trying days.  [*Pious is the Latin word for "godly."]

If a young man is looking for a godly woman, how can he find her? 
First he should trust God to find her for him. 
Second, he must realize that a virtuous woman is not going to want just any man. 
She is going to want to find a virtuous man
(a man of strength, a man valiant for the truth, a godly servant of Christ). 
So if you want to have any chance of finding such a gem, you must be a gem yourself. 
Exercise yourself unto godliness. 
Learn the fear of the Lord.  Dare to be different. 
Dare to go against the flow of the world, and to be transformed by the renewing of your mind
(Rom. 12:2).  Be the kind of a man that would attract the interest of the godly woman!

So in this opening verse we have learned that the godly woman is very hard to find. 
She is more valuable than a rare gem. 
She has an inner beauty and a strength of character and a moral firmness that is lacking in the vast majority of women, even believing women.

Narrative to "All The Days Of Our Lives" - Prov 31:12

Proverbs 31:12

She will do him good, and not evil

Her husband can safely trust in her because he does not need to worry about her being a financial liability (v. 11) and because he knows that she will do him only good, and not evil.  "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor from the LORD" (Prov. 18:22).  Of course, the man must find the right kind of wife.  Job's wife was a curse who only added to his trials (Job 2:9-10).  Some men find "a crown to their head" while others find "rottenness to their bones" (Prov. 12:4).  One of the reasons Proverbs 31:10-31 was written, no doubt, was to help guide men in finding the right kind of wife. [Some see Proverbs 31:10-31 as a continuation of what King Lemuel's mother taught him (Proverbs 31:1-9), concluding with this description of an ideal wife for her royal son.]  The key to finding the right woman, is to look to the Lord in prayer and steadfast trust, so that God Himself might be the One who finds her.  God knows who my life partner should be.

The verb "will do" is of interest.  It is not the common Hebrew verb for "do." It means to deal out, to deal fully, to deal bountifully.  At times it even approaches the meaning of "to reward, to pay back."  Let's illustrate how it is used. 

In 1 Samuel 24:17 David had just spared Saul's life even though he easily could have killed his persecutor.  Saul's response:  "Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil."   Saul deserved evil but David dealt with him in a good way.  Saul dished out evil to David but David dished out good to Saul who actually deserved evil.  In Genesis 50:15,17 the term is used of Joseph's guilty brothers who remembered what they had done to Joseph:  "Joseph...will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him....So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil."  They dealt out and dished out evil to Joseph but he did not pay them back in the same way.  Joseph saw God's good and sovereign hand in it all (Gen. 50:20).  

This verb is also used of the LORD who deals  bountifully with his servants. See Psalm 13:6; 116:7; 119:17; 142:7.

The virtuous woman deals out to her husband that which is good.  She dishes out to him and serves him that which is good and not evil.  She wants only God's highest and best for him.   Her life and her deeds are a constant benefit and blessing to her husband. 

All the days of her life

In doing good to her husband she is consistent.  She doesn't serve him that which is good one day and that which is evil the next day.  Her husband can count on her to do him good and to be a blessing to him.  He can count on her to do this today, five days from now, one year from now, ten years from now, and all the days of her life.  She is not up and down, hot and cold.  Her godliness is marked with consistency.