Do not spend your strength on women, your vigour on those who ruin kings lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights. Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy (Proverbs 31:3, 5, 9 NIV).
It is ironic that the majority of this part of the wisdom literature is written or edited by one of the wisest man that ever lived and this is the advice he gives: Don’t spend your strength on women because it will lead you to ruination. Thanks for the advice Solomon, are you speaking from personal experience then? Of course he was.
women was the king's achilles heel
He had 700 wives and 300 concubines (1Kings 11:3)! Although he was regarded as the wisest man in his generation, wisdom must be underpinned with the other virtues that are a necessary part of the godly person’s character, [patience, longsuffering, kindness, love, faith and so on]. What this shows us is that every one of us has our weakness and if this weakness is not addressed then it will lead to our ruin.
Solomon was the king and had a penchant for beautiful women. However after all these women, riches, houses and land he concludes that it is all vanity!
His foreign wives led him astray and he ended up worshipping their gods, thereby breaking the first commandment. As an old man and in reflective mode he says this, “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate” (v.30&31).
Beauty is only skin deep, it is the character of an individual that really matters. Those with white skin sit under uv lamps to get dark, whilst those with dark skin use peroxide and all sort of cream to get light skin. Those with short hear buy put-ins and those with long hair put caustic in it to make it crinkly!
We all have come short of what God requires of us. So we should all become proverbs 31 people. Fear the Lord and develop character not external beauty!
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