"The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down."
Proverbs 14:1 (NIV)
Feminists scoff at the idea of holding the position of being a wife in high regard, for they deliberately ignore that when God created humans, He created them male and female and He made them man and wife. Marriage, defined as a man and a woman in a life-long covenantal relationship, is the highest and holiest relationship known to humans. It is the primary relationship and all other relationships - even civil society - are built upon marriage.
The importance of marriage can be compared to the cells that make up all matter. These cells are made up of various members and yet they operate as a unit and together with other cells, they form complex organisms and structures. God brought the woman to the man and they became one flesh; perfectly united - two individual parts, but together they are one. All of humanity is based and built upon the relationship of marriage.
This verse in Proverbs teaches that in marriage the wife holds the power to the unity of the relationship: “she can build her house, or she can tear it down”. When a woman decides before God to be the woman that He wants, calls and empowers her to be, she builds her house. I don’t know if you have seen the sign, “Welcome to the nut house” but whenever I see it above a door of a house, I chuckle. The truth is that there is no such thing as a perfect house; every family has dysfunction. BUT there is such a thing as a WISE wife, a WISE mother and she has power that the husband and father doesn’t have. She has the power to either build or tear down her own house, with her own hands.
If you are a wife or a mother, may God bless you as you seek to build up your family in wisdom. If you are a husband or a child may you rise and call your wife or mother “blessed”. Not only do these ladies hold the power over their own families, how they build their families determines the strength of our society!
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