Proverbs Chapter 12
We come to the 12th chapter and fined the “virtuous woman”. This is the 2nd time out of 3times she is mentioned in the entire Bible. The 1st is in the book of Ruth, when the title is given to Ruth herself. We find a gentile bride that was pulled out of the gleaning fields to be married to the Kinsman redeemer. You have to stick your head in the sand not to know she is a picture of the church. The other time she is mentioned is a whole chapter that closes this book we are studying. For those of you that know the teaching at CHBC, you already know that there is only one interpretation to the scripture, and it is God’s. However ther is 3 basic applications (historical, prophetical, and inspirational. And when we read this verse {Pro 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.} We can make application to the prophetical, by looking at the church (bride of Christ) bring Glory to her husband.
I want to take notice of the inspirational side of this verse. We live in a world with very blurred lines. There are a lot of women running around, but very few ladies. They have lost the virtue, and quality of inner elegance. Women are seen in movies and TV shows as very loose, without any modesty. For years women have pushed for women’s liberties, at the cost of virtue and inner beauty. And before you go crazy and think this is a witch hunt on women and that this maybe some chauvinistic slant toward women, please understand that men are worse than pigs in today’s world, in my opinion. We have lost our virtue in both sexes.
The verse states that when you have a wife that is virtuous, she brings pride and honor to you as her husband. What makes women beautiful is not plastic surgery, it is not a fake body, and lot of makeup, it is elegance and virtue. What a beautiful site to look at a couple that has stayed true to God and live according to his word for 30, 40 and even 50 years. By that time neither has the outward looks or physical shape that was around in their youth, but they have a beauty that can’t be gained at the best plastic surgeon in all of Beverly Hills.
Virtue! It’s worth more than Gold