Posted on 03/31/2020 6:14:40 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?” (Proverbs 31:2 KJV).
He has either done something that she was surprised by, “What my son?,” or something that he would talk about or think about. And she says, “What the son of my vows?” Over in First Samuel chapter one is another woman making vows to get a son.
Hannah is a woman that had no children, and she bore a reproach. It’s built into a woman to have children. A woman can never be fulfilled as a woman until she has children, and even if she can't have them; adopt them. She needs to raise a kid. She just needs to have kids around. That's just the woman's nature and she bears an approach until she can raise children.
Hannah was bearing that reproach, and “she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore. And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head” (1 Samuel 1:10-11).”
Hannah vowed to make Samuel a Nazarite and dedicate him to the priesthood, and she kept her vow.
So, were vows made concerning this man, king Lemuel. His mother said, “What the son of my vows?” It's possible that she too did not have a child and she made a vow like Hannah that if God would give a child that she too would return that child to the Lord. And so, when she did have a child, she taught King Lemuel the truth, and she taught him some very wise things, and some very good things.
By the way, Samuel is not the only one that had a good mother in the Scriptures. You will find that Timothy had a good mother, as well as grandmother. When Paul wrote to Timothy he said some things about it in Second Timothy chapter3 1 and 3. Paul said, “When I called rememberance the unfeigned faith that is in thee,” talking to Timothy, “which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also” (verse 5).
Woman today seem to want to fulfill biblical roles that God never designed for them, such as being pastors of churches. Well, that is not nor will it ever be the greatest use of their God-given talents. Those are for the home. Those are for raising children to both love the Lord and to love His word. If you want to read of a woman that went far beyond her calling, read most any biography of Suzanne Wesley. She raised a godly heritage for the Lord. She believed that she was called to raise godly children. History tells us of her single success.
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