“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.”
Charles Dickens
There comes a time in every woman’s life when any amount of make-up or surgery cannot stave off the inevitable. But, if she has practiced the beauty tips in Proverbs 31, she is still the light of many lives, and those who love her will not notice.
Proverbs 31 (paraphrased)
A woman of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
Her family and friends have full confidence in her
and they lack nothing of value.
She brings them good, not harm,
all the days of her life. . .
She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Children arise and call her blessed;
her family also praises her:
“Many women do noble things,
but you surpass them all.”
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Honor her for all that her hands have done,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
That Submission Thing
On this day in 1954, C.S. Lewis named Dickens and Tolstoy as two of his favorite authors saying that both wrote well about affection.
“All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
God’s description of a happy family includes submission.
It is a given that all Christians are to be in submission to Christ.
In addition, Paul the Apostle in his letter to the Ephesians instructs all Christians to submit to one another.
He goes on to describe what that submission looks like.
He reminds the wife that her relationship to her husband should be guided by the given that we are all to submit to one another as to Christ and mentions that submission includes respect.
He gives the husband further instruction. In addition to submitting to Christ and other Christians, the husband is to dedicate his life specifically to the spiritual, physical and emotional welfare of his wife. (As the recipient of this sort of submission, I have no problem with the concept.)
To children, God, through Moses and the apostles, promises that the best way to “live well and prosper” is to obey your parents.
Ephesians 5: 21-33
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—“so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” (Deuteronomy 5:16)
“All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
God’s description of a happy family includes submission.
It is a given that all Christians are to be in submission to Christ.
In addition, Paul the Apostle in his letter to the Ephesians instructs all Christians to submit to one another.
He goes on to describe what that submission looks like.
He reminds the wife that her relationship to her husband should be guided by the given that we are all to submit to one another as to Christ and mentions that submission includes respect.
He gives the husband further instruction. In addition to submitting to Christ and other Christians, the husband is to dedicate his life specifically to the spiritual, physical and emotional welfare of his wife. (As the recipient of this sort of submission, I have no problem with the concept.)
To children, God, through Moses and the apostles, promises that the best way to “live well and prosper” is to obey your parents.
Ephesians 5: 21-33
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—“so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” (Deuteronomy 5:16)
Saturday, January 7, 2012
The End is Near
On this day in 1914, G. K. Chesterton and his friends spent four hours as amateur actors improvising a trial based upon Dicken’s unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chesterton played the judge.
Around the Year with C. S. Lewis and Friends, compiled by Kathryn Lindskoog
“I wish Dickens had finished Drood and left others to begin it.” Leon Garfield, foreword to his own 1980 version of the Dickens mystery.”
When we leave this earth, we leave unfinished business. When Christ died he was able to say, “it is finished” because he had accomplished all that his father had given him to do. I pray that I will be able to accomplish whatever God created me to do before I go home.
Hebrews 9:27, 28
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Around the Year with C. S. Lewis and Friends, compiled by Kathryn Lindskoog
“I wish Dickens had finished Drood and left others to begin it.” Leon Garfield, foreword to his own 1980 version of the Dickens mystery.”
When we leave this earth, we leave unfinished business. When Christ died he was able to say, “it is finished” because he had accomplished all that his father had given him to do. I pray that I will be able to accomplish whatever God created me to do before I go home.
Hebrews 9:27, 28
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
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