Proverbs Thought of the Day

"Every wise woman buildeth her house:

but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands."

- Proverbs 14:1

If Solomon had been talking about the literal house, I'd be in trouble. I'm no good with a hammer. Building a house for my family would have been pretty disasterous.

The house Solomon speaks of here is not the building, but what is in it. The household. The family. The relationships. A wise woman knows the power she has to keep her family together, and uses it for good. She dedicates time to her husband, encourages him, takes his leadership into consideration before making a decision on her own. She teaches her children with loving discipline and example. She is easy to point out in a crowd.

The foolish woman takes her house apart with her own hands. She is destructive when it comes to her marriage and her children. This damage goes on from generation to generation, as her children end up destroying their own relationships because they never learned how to take care of a marriage or how to be good parents.

We need to be aware of the attitudes we have as women. Are we using our words and our actions to build our family up, or tear it apart? We have the responsibility to be the glue that keeps the family unit together. Let's take that power and use it wisely.