From Proverbs 31:
This is the advice of a mother -- "give not your strength to women or your ways to that which destroys Kings" . Interesting that a mother’s advice to a man she cares for, one she wants to give the inside track to, is to avoid other women. I think that "unknown women" are different from "mother", "wife", "sister": he should not spend his money, time and influence for women that are not his family or ones that cannot be trusted.
The thrust of a man's life should not be women. I think it would not be even his wife. He should not view his life’s task as living for his wife. His purpose is to serve his God. In the service of his God he cares for his wife and raises an educates his children. In the exercise of serving God, a man serves others: like wife and children. God requires it.
These should be the ways of Kings:
- - Be not we drunk
- - Open the mouth for the dumb that are appointed to destruction
- - Open the mouth in order to judge righteously
- - Plead the cause of the poor and needy
The function of government is not to distribute services and wealth but to:
- - Step in as an arbitrator and an advocate for those with little wealth, low mental capability, in desperate situations.
- - Rightly apply an administer God’s and human law.
- - To decide between one and the other .
- - Have a heart for, and be an advocate for, those that cannot speak in that are scheduled to be pushed aside.
