tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20342931.post113888406954487093..comments2023-10-26T10:42:35.773-04:00Comments on Bible in the Basement: A Strong WomanKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03908805430109059630noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20342931.post-1138986439813267222006-02-03T12:07:00.000-05:002006-02-03T12:07:00.000-05:00My friend and I were just discussing this topic la...My friend and I were just discussing this topic last night so I can't help but think God especially wanted me to read this article today. :) "To exhibit such Christlike compassion and healing requires strength of character - a personal confidence and contentment that can freely give to others." I need to remember this as I strive to grow in the knowledge of what God desires of me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20342931.post-1138936765349896212006-02-02T22:19:00.000-05:002006-02-02T22:19:00.000-05:00In Proverbs 31:10-31 we have a description of a vi...In Proverbs 31:10-31 we have a description of a virtuous woman, many of the details of which are appropriate to Rahab.<BR/><BR/>"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. . . . She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. . . . She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant" (Prov. 31:10, 13, 24). Rahab dealt in flax and linen. <BR/>"She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy" (Prov. 31:20). So Rahab stretched forth her hands to the needy spies <BR/>"She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet" (Prov. 31:21) Because of the cost of the scarlet dye, clothing of scarlet was reserved for durable and warm fabrics, indicative of the kind of clothing which Rahab may have made. <BR/>"Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land" (Prov. 31:23). Salmon, Rahab’s husband, was one of the elders of the tribe of Judah. <BR/>"Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her" (Prov. 31:28). How blessed has been the memory of Rahab, a memory blessed by the royal line of children which came from her faith and conversion to the God of Israel. <BR/>"Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised" (Prov. 31:30).. The Jewish rabbis hold that Rahab was one of the four most beautiful women in the world. Whether the tradition is so or not we do not know; but it is not for her beauty that she is remembered, rather she is praised because she feareth the LORD. <BR/>"Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates."—Proverbs 31:31<BR/>By Carl HagensickWartburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07200075978807840362noreply@blogger.com