ONLY THAT WHICH IS GOOD
God is good. It is one of His attributes and He wants us to be full of goodness too. Goodness should also be part of our family lives. I notice the word “good” is used twice in Proverbs 31, one in regard to marriage, and one in regard to the home.
Firstly, Proverbs 31:12 says: “She will do him (her husband) good and not evil all the days of her life.” My husband reads this Scripture every Friday evening at our Shabbat meal as he reads through this chapter. Sometimes he will say, “She will do him good and not evil some of the days of her life.” He waits to hear if we noticed if he has read incorrectly. Someone will usually interrupt and say, “No, it is “ALL the days of her life.”
Secondly, Proverbs 31:18 says: “She perceiveth that her merchandise is good.” This particularly refers to the gain from her home industry. But it also encompasses everything she puts her hand to in her home. It relates to everything she purchases and brings into her home.
Dear wives and mothers, we need to keep this vision in our hearts for everything we do. Even when we go shopping. We will only bring back into our homes that which is good. We’ll only purchase good food. Food that nourishes the body. We won’t waste money purchasing devitalized foods such as white flour and white sugar (which is a poison) and packets and tins of food with corn syrup and loads of additives which are mostly cancer forming. Do you read the labels? Sometimes I see something interesting but once I read the label, back in goes on the shelf!
We won’t bring home junky stuff that clutters the home but has no value. We will fill our homes with lovely music, good books, beautiful pictures. Everything that is good.
We are so used to this word good that we take it for granted. But do you know the biblical meaning of good (tov)? It will take a paragraph of adjectives and adverbs to give you the full meaning!
Here we go: agreeable, beautiful, beneficial, better, best, bountiful, cheerful, excellent, ethically right, fair, fairer, fine, glad, gracious, happy, happiness, joyful, kind, kindness, loving, merry, merciful, pleasant to the senses, pleasant to the higher nature, precious, prosperous, rich, sweet, upright, valuable, and very good.
Wow! This gives us a wonderful vision for our homes, doesn’t it?
We won’t waste our time on peripheral things; this life is preparing for eternity.
We won’t waste money on fleeting stuff; we only bring into our homes that which is beneficial and beautiful.
We won’t waste our time eating at fast food restaurants; we are creating family bonding time at home at our own table with all our children around us.
We won’t waste our time on trifling entertainment for ourselves; we give our time to productivity that will bless our household.
We won’t speak downgrading and negative words; we will fill our home with cheerful, kind, sweet, and encouraging words.
Each new day, let’s think of something special and good we can do for our husband. Let’s think of something lovely and good we can do to bring gain and blessing to our homes and continually make them HOME SWEET HOME.
Have a lovely day, Nancy Campbell
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