Posted on 11/12/2022 12:32:10 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones” (Proverbs 12:4).
“Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies” [Proverbs 31:10] written by King Lemuel.
The first twenty-nine chapters of Proverbs were written by Solomon, whose married life was anything but happy. Chapter 30 of Proverbs was written by Agur; and the last chapter (31), by King Lemuel.
King Lemuel was happily married. But Solomon! What a sour dill pickle he was about women! Twice he sobs, “It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house” (Proverbs 21:9; 25:24).
First of all, it should be said that this verse probably works both ways. We all know men that shame their wives, just as there are men that shame their husbands, but it says there that “a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband,” and you never really know how bad the feminism movement messed things up; and it's not all about husbands beating up their wives and the wives get to be doormats and all those sort of things, you know just barefoot and pregnant and all that kind of stuff. It's not about that.
You don't know how bad the feminist movement messed things up until you started reading the Bible and thinking about things, because “a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.” That woman is his crown. and you know what? A good husband will take care of his crown or should. That feminism movement sprung up in this country; a land of plenty, where women were treated better than anywhere else in the world. Go to Kenya and just see how women are treated or go to a Muslim country and see how women are treated. Isn’t it a hoot that so many American women are asking for Sharia law? They have no idea. Go read American Indian literature in history and see what the squaws were, they were not a crown.
The idea of the high regard for women is a Christian attribute; it's not a humanistic aspect. It didn't come from humanism, it didn't flow out of education, it didn't flow out of religion, it didn't flow just out of western culture. It flowed out of Christianity, and so ladies, when it says that you should be in subjection to your own husband you say, “I resent that.” Well, maybe he could just as rhetorically resent the fact that he has to love you like he loves his own. The husband is supposed to love his wife as much as he loves himself, and don’t even ask how well he is succeeding in that.
So. while it may be hard for her to submit sometimes, know that it is a kind of two-way street. It's a challenge both ways. God is a male, despite what trend in religion seems to be. He's not a female goddess. It is a masculine Book, and the fact of the matter is that the masculine Bible wound up elevating women higher than anywhere else in the world and in any culture ever devised.
“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones,” and some men are probably rottenness, practically speaking, in their wives’ bones. This thing can go both ways, but this virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
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