What a woman! 

Proverbs chapter 31 shows us a woman of character: strong personality, wise, entrepreneurial, dignified, relaxed, joyful, respected, charitable, compassionate, thrifty and shrewd!

This snapshot of the 'perfect wife' isn't to be used as some measuring stick for purposes of comparison, but rather as an encouragement for girls of all ages to take charge of their life and destiny!

A man with a weak ego and insecurities will gravitate toward opportunities to victimize a woman...and so will those religions that thrive in such sociological environs.

A good marriage will create an environment in which a 'Proverbs 31' woman can thrive. Such an environment will encourage a healthy, open and thriving family system.

As those nuclear family systems gather, homogenously, social systems assume the pattern of the family systems and a healthy, open and thriving social system emerges.

That is how church patterns, ideologies, polities and dogmatism develop and indeed perpetuate - either for good or for evil. Those church systems influenced by the insecurities of weak men and closed, cloistered family and social systems will perpetuate the evil of inequality, inequity and totalitarianism.

Churches seeking the open and thriving social system such as is patterned by Judaism through its early pre-monarchy history, and reflected not only in Proverbs 31 but also in the role of women as Judges, will find their congregations experiencing the dynamics of grace and liberty.

Girls, GO FOR IT!! Ladies, develop that strength of character which brings: strong personality, wisdom, entrepreneurial vision and success, dignity, peace, joy, respect, charity, compassion, thrift and shrewdness!

And let God deal with the man who gets in your way...don't look back.