You may be a great cook, have a special voice, or be a gifted tailor or carpenter. Let us consider our own God given talents and see what benefit it can bring to us, our families or to our community. What gift have you been blessed with? Do you use it? With a little imagination and determination you can you can use your talent to earn some money. She is talented and industrious: “She stretches out her hands to the distaff, and her hands grasp the spindle” She uses her creative talents to earn additional income to support her family. She plans ahead and is organized : “When it snows, she has no fear for her household for all of them are clothed in scarlet.” She plans ahead for a rainy day and is an organized and energetic woman who manages her time efficiently and can accomplish more by starting her day early and carries out her responsibilities with diligence and good cheer.ĥ. Her husband has full confidence in her and trusts her to make the right day to day decisions and manage the family assets efficiently.Ĥ. She is reliable and dependable and watches over the affairs of her family. She not only plans for the short term but understands and seeks the benefits of long term investments and income and contributes to the financial well-being of her household. Apart from working to earn a living, she invests carefully. She invests wisely: “She considers a field and buys it from her earnings she plants a vineyard”. We too can be frugal in our shopping, by avoiding impulsive buying and shopping with a list.ģ. She is frugal : “She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.” She is prudent about her shopping and will go some distance to shop around for quality items at bargain prices to ensure that she gets good value for her money. She values her customers and is quality conscious and will go the extra mile to ensure that she has good quality products.Ģ. An entrepreneur, her effort and industry bring benefit to her family as she is able supplement the family income. A business woman : “She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.” “She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night.” This woman runs a business from her home and has the business acumen to be a successful trader in the marketplace. Let us examine the characteristics of this remarkable woman and see if we can come any closer to this ideal in our own lives.ġ. ![]() This discussion however, will focus on 8 practical financial lessons and concepts that come to the fore that we can imbibe and include in our lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with or without children, young or old, there are many lessons to be learned from the Proverbs 31 woman. What can we, today’s women learn from this ancient biblical ideal as we pass through our diverse and complex lifestyles, juggling family, home, work, career and business. She forms the perfect picture of a busy woman running her home, rushing to work, running a business, making investment decisions, and volunteering her time for charitable causes, whilst continuing to be the rock of her family a wonderful wife and mother. Even though she existed thousands of years ago, the proverbs 31 woman and her approach to life and money matters, is more relevant than ever for the 21 st Century woman. Generations of women have held the Proverbs 31 woman as their role model.
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