Re:Verse passage – Proverbs 31:10-31 (day five)
When we read, listen, process, and ponder, we like to have our information given to us in this order- cause then effect. The cause sheds lights on all the listed effects. There’s less tension. Fewer needed questions. Minimal investigation.
Here, in this last chapter of Proverbs, the writer goes from effect to cause. Did you feel and sense the pressure and suspense created by this reordering? Who lives like this? How is a life like this possible? I don’t think I can do half of these things. The effects are crystal clear- spelled out in a beautifully written acrostic poem. So, what is the cause? We are now on the edge of our seats. Verse 30, “a woman who fears the Lord”. Someone who has an abiding and reverent obedience to God through Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit.
For what God is his wisdom requires of us, that in Christ through His Spirit he also give us. – David Atkinson
Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true Word
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord
Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son
Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one
