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Saturday, December 12, 2015

TREATING WOMEN

In Proverbs 31 Wisdom is personified as a woman.  We find this advice to a man from Wisdom: "Give not your strength to women, or your ways to that which destroys kings". It is interesting that a wisdom's advice to a man she cares for, one she wants to give the "inside track" to, is to avoid other women.

I wonder if women are different from mothers, sisters, wife, daughters ? He should not spend his money, time and influence for women that are not his family.  Rather, of the woman he engages foremost, he should favor his mother, sister, wife, daughter.

The thrust of a man's life should not be women. I think it would not be even his wife. He should consider his purpose in life is to serve his God. In the service of his God he cares for and prefers his wife and raises and educates his children. In the exercise of serving his God, a man serves others, like wife and children.

When God is going over the books with you in heaven and you get to the "Treatment of Other People" section, the first major category will be "Family".