Are You Desiring Virtue?
“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.” (Proverbs 31:10)
The truth is, the standard set by the virtuous woman found in Proverbs is completely impossible. No woman can attain her level of industry, sacrifice, and benevolence. She is set in the our lives as a north star, guiding us to our heavenly calling as Christ-exalting homemakers. Her excellence and virtue stand as desirable, yet unattainable goals for all of us imperfect women who respectfully highlight and mark our way through Proverbs 31.
Yet the author and creator of this beautiful woman was the Lord himself. He fashioned her virtuous qualities after his very own holy character. The wisdom displayed in her skills as a homemaker is the same wisdom the Bible continually instructs us to cultivate as redeemed people, as citizens of a heavenly kingdom.
Our homemaking is not outside the realm of grace. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is the onlypower, the only reason we can smile at this woman found in Proverbs and confidently model our lives after her. As the Word of God washes over us and transforms our lives, moment by moment, through the working of the Holy Spirit, our desire to be virtuous women will come to fruition. It is indeed impossible to be the Proverbs 31 woman without the grace of the gospel in our lives.Through the grace of the gospel we grow in all areas of wisdom, including our lives a homemakers.
As we set ourselves about the imperative task of loving the Lord more fully and seeking him more diligently we will find the mundane tasks of homemaking to be of heavenly worth. As we wash dishes, fold laundry, clean toilets, change diapers, and pick crushed goldfish out of the carpet we will remember that our Lord calls us all to be servants for his glory and his honor. We will learn the blessing of identifying with our Lord Jesus Christ who made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men and our homes will be full of the fruit of his humiliation. They will be marked by the glory of his powerful resurrection and be fueled by the working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
This is what Desiring Virtue is about. It seeks to mix the “holy” with the “secular” and encourage women to see their callings as wife, mother, homemaker, neighbor, friend, and church member all as avanues of enjoying the grace of God and bringing glory to the grace of God.
Posts here will relate to all areas of a woman’s life, both spiritual and physical. From Bible saturated meditations to instructions on loading a dishwasher, nothing is out of bounds because nothing is outside the Lord’s reign in our lives. This site claims to be “homemaking for the theologian” because it was created to be a resource for women who seek to mine the depths of the knowledge of God. It was created for women who know that their homemaking is a reflection of their relationship with God and fueled by their relationship with God.
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I’ve just found and joined your site through email, and am so excited to follow your blog! I’m a single woman with no children, but the Proverbs 31 woman and her virtues are so what I want, and the woman I want to be. Even though I don’t have a family to take care of, my home-making skills are atrocious, and I want my home to be pleasing to the Lord…for HIM! So, I’m hoping your site and blog may be a help in developing into the spiritual woman God wants me to be…married or not!
Thank you so much for being here!
Susan