Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
The Wisdom of the Virtuous Woman 1
She loved her job – knitting and sewing and because she
loved her job; she thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of the job. This explains
why she took extra care to shop for the best yarns and cottons. Why? So that she
would produce quality clothing for her clients, her family and of course
herself. Please read Proverbs Chapter 31 verses 12 to 13.
The Bible also records that she knows the value of her work
and for that reason, she is always at her work station, unsupervised, first
thing in the morning and is never in a hurry to leave. Lesson – she has great
work ethics – commitment to her work. Knowing and understanding the value of
one’s work, skill, expertise and talent is a precursor to how a person treats
the work, skill, expertise and talent. King Solomon for instance valued his God
given wisdom and traded it profitably, guarding it jealously, respecting it as
a great gift from God to him. King Solomon prospered and made great wealth from
the deployment of that gift. Royalty and the wealthy from the global village of
his day shipped money and other gifts to King Solomon just so they could hear
his wisdom.
Unfortunately, the lazy owner of the vineyard in Proverbs
Chapter 24 verses 24 to 30 had no knowledge, understanding and value of what
God blessed him with. So he left it to rot through his negative attitude and
behavior of making excuses for his body; getting extra sleep and rest which his
body did not really require. He left the vineyard unattended to and after a
while, he lost the vineyard – the walls which cracked a little and were not
attended to; the cracks had widened and the walls had collapsed – they were
broken down and open to all kinds of prey. There was no more protection of unrestricted
access to his vineyard – anyone and anything could walk in.
Secondly, he neglected to weed out the grass and thorns and
they had grown to incredible sizes and had taken over the entire vineyard;
thereby contending fiercely for the plant nutrients in the ground. The
implication is that whatever was planted in the ground was at the mercy of the
weeds and thorns – being choked out. If only the owner of the vineyard had an
understanding of the value of his vineyard, he would have at least paid attention
to it by mending the cracks in the wall; and weeding out the weeds and thorns.
Too bad.
Beloved, the same thing applies to people who do not till
their lands but go tilling the lands of other people, especially for free. What
happens when you take your God given divine ideas for progress in your land to
the lands of other people especially people who would eventually become your
competition and you till their grounds very well. You have simply cut yourself
out of business as you have planted them and rooted them firmly in the ground
to prevent you from ever taking off. May God have mercy on all who have made
such grievous mistakes so that they can recover and bounce back to the original
plans of God for their lives in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
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