What are the virtues of a good Christian woman?
SHE IS A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER Notice how carefully our woman of chapter 31 keeps her house, does her sewing, and is up early to prepare food-a good homemaker. In I Timothy, Paul was inspired to write that it is all right to take under the care of the church an older woman who is past sixty, if she has been the wife of one man, if she has washed the saints’ feet and relieved the afflicted. But he said about the younger women, ‘Let them marry, bear children and guide the house.’ A wonderful career for a wife and mother is to be a homemaker, a housekeeper. Little attentions in the home amount to so much. My mother died before I was six. I remember the cake she made for my fifth birthday. It had my name on top in little cinnamon drops-my last birthday cake until I married! “God setteth the solitary in families” (Ps. 68:6). Aren’t you glad you aren’t hatched out of an egg and scratching for your own worms at two weeks old, like a chicken! God puts us in families. He gives us people to love us a
