::blogging women::
Last Sunday we concluded a series in Proverbs with a sermon by Joshua Harris on the Proverbs 31 woman tittled A Woman of Valor. In this Hebrew poem found in Proverbs 31:10-31 a mother instructs her son find a wife who fears the Lord, gives her life away, is capable and is influential. While I found much personal application to take home from this great message, I also came away so encouraged by large host of women I know who aim to live by these godly characteristics.
So I just wanted to send out a little encouragement to you other blogging women - thank you for living in such a way that points a watching world to know the glories of our Lord. The life you live in Christ is anything but the "norm" and I really am overwhelmed with gratefulness for the clear work of the Spirit in you all. And I'm again challenged when I read of grace working your lives to not compare sinfully but worship humbly the One who is working in and through you. Thanks for striving to be this type of Proverbs 31 women!
This picture from C.S. Lewis' Meditation in a Toolshed one I think of as I see your lives:
I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place. Everything else was almost pitch-black. I was seeing the beam, not seeing things by it. Then I moved, so that the beam fell on my eyes. Instantly the whole previous picture vanished. I saw no toolshed, and (above all) no beam. Instead I saw, framed in the irregular cranny at the top of the door, green leaves moving on the branches of a tree outside and beyond that, 90 odd million miles away, the sun.
Looking along the beam, and looking at the beam are very different experiences.
Lord, help me to commit to not just looking at the beam, in a group of individual women, but look along the beam to You, the Source of Light and give you all worship for such clear grace you have worked. To you be the glory! - Amen!


