Who Can Find A Virtuous Woman?

Painting from Gustave Doré, The Crucifixion.

Who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies?

Proverbs 31:10

Yea, who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies? The Lord does safely trust in them whom he has called, sanctified, justified, and glorifies with his virtue, setting that Holy Spirit of himself in them (Psalm 19), and so, they become virtuous once God has set God in them, but the fervency and zeal of their virtue, even the resemblance of the virtue of God on their countenance; according to the degree of the diligence of their faith, which is proven unto themselves and unto the Holy Spirit without hypocrisy; through the reading and doing of the commandments of God, whom is love, and in him and through whom we are separate from semblances and appearances, which are a beguiling and shortchanging of one self, which is not necessary, for if God has begun a work in you, there is no need to fret, but instead to be at peace and calmness of mind and heart, praying for the knowledge of our new life in God, that we may understand what virtue is, and that we may discern the presence of God in the midst of us, and if it be so that God is with us, and has made us virtuous, that is to say, holy righteousness, then you shall know yourself as a new person, even one who looks into the reading of the Word, and seeks to daily discern the Spirit of God, whom is of infinite wisdom and understanding, loving and kind, plenteous in mercy, and gracious. And you shall have holy strength and holy honor as clothing, and in you shall be the law of kindness, and your clothing shall be the clothing of the saints, and you shall not wear strange clothing, that is, you shall not wear the clothing and ornaments that speak of the desolate ways and means of this world, but you shall cover yourself with the invisible strength of God, whom has set holy meekness as of the greatest price, and has also given us his words, that we may add grace unto our speech, and our mind be refreshed again and again with the healing of his words; all this being a good work and virtuous.

Gustave Dore, Deborah Under The Palm Tree, Governess of Israel

To those whom take hold of the strength of God, because they seek peace with him, the Lord does ordain light, and a ‘line’ of power is afforded unto them, and their candle goeth not out by night, (Proverbs 31:18), for the Lord does not take away his Christ from us, but is able to save unto the utmost, having all strength and being the King of the Spirit of Longsuffering and Grace; having proven himself, and his love, and his majesty, above all principalities and dominions and power, all the way to the cross, and after the cross; God The Father raising up his Sun of Righteousness, after the world rejected him and crucified him; proved his strength of life over death and hell; proved his love and the virtuous strength of his purpose, as he has ordained it though his Lamb, Jesus, that we may, across all ages, boldly and confidently have a solid faith in Christ, whom the Father decreed is his Word & Spirit-made flesh, (Hebrews Chapter 1).

But virtue is of God, and it is not in us naturally; the path unto it starting with the work of God in us, causing us holy meekness in us unto him, and that also liberty form this world; altogether a work of God, and not of ourselves. For the goodness of our soul is of God, and the life that we have belongs to God, and eternal strength is of God, whom has called a generation holy from before the beginning, and unto the ends of the world, to be his chosen people; in whom he sets the virtuous Holy Spirit of the brightness of his glory, his Sun of Righteousness; the Bridegroom, who enjoins unto our soul, making us new creatures-in-Christ, thus we become ‘virtuous.’

But who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies, and the heart of her husband does safely trust in her, and as the Lord says in Proverbs 31, percieveth that her ‘merchandise is good,’ and she ‘cares for her house,’ and ‘does work willingly with her hands,’ and all her house is clothed, and ‘the fruit of her hands work the work of God with great meekness unto the Spirit of His Word, and are the invisible things of God;’ and she does wear God, and the things of God as ornaments of grace about her; and so, her life is as a ‘new song’ that praises God with her being, and she does walk in the strength of God, having made peace with him who has shown mercy and made virtuous.

Howeversobeit, the ‘virtuous woman’ is not simply a singular daughter of God, and co-inheritor with Christ, but the same exemplifies the ‘Bride of Christ’ in the plural sense, meaning, the virtuous woman is all the house of the Israel of God; the elect sons and daughters of God, whom he has made precious and virtuous that they be the brethren of his only Sun, Christ Jesus our Good Lord and Savior. Yea, the bride of Christ are the sheep of the pasture, whom God typifies as the Holy Flock, having that Great Longsuffering Shephard, that Jesus, Lord and Bishop of our souls, whose Holy Spirit causes as many as receive him to enter into the beginning of virtue; and these, becoming separate and spiritually detached from the manner of this world, yea, the desolate works of the devil; begin to forsake the ways and customs of this world, and all the pleasant things that it has to offer, do turn to God, and having Light, do see the hope of peace for their soul, and that, because God has shown mercy, firstly giving them the strength to have faith in him. And with that strength of faith, yea, that Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus in them: their nature and purpose of their life changing; and they do begin to work unto the Lord, and not unto themselves; and not unto others, but as it is correct, — unto God, who has given us a new heart and mind unto all things, and we do begin to value the Lord, and the Words of God, and the way of God, who blesses his house with the things that this world cannot give; and that is profound peace, and profound joy, and a love that surpasses all understanding, and a gentleness of heart, and a cleverness of mind that is quick-witted, yet harmless as a dove.

Our merchandise and profession being a light thing that does send righteousness forth through us, (I say through us, and not of us); the Lord blessing the work we do according to the Word and Spirit of His Word, that God be all in all, and all glory unto him in Christ, and not unto us, whom he has lifted up; and if he has lifted up Christ, will also lift us up through Christ, that we know ourselves and be known of God, as the sons and daughters of the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

That merchandise we sell then, being sacrifices of joy, and a life of the Lord’s manner of peace, which is not appeasement, but is just, and it does go forth in righteousness doing good; yea, the Righteousness of God in us, which shines through more and more as our Holy Meekness increases unto perfection: the love and presence of God fully formed in us that we abound excellently as pillars of God, whom were of this world and were bound by Satan unto this world; our life having become vain, and the value of our life being set at nought, and our dead spirits without hope of quickening. But we have been visited by God, — whom we learn has been searching for us and gathering us in Spirit; that none of his are forsaken, nor lost, but all whom he has preordained virtue unto, all of these shall enter into peace; and all of these shall produce good fruit unto the Lord, as be as his Sun, and after that pattern of Jesus, his lights unto the world: God having made us his ambassadors, and if ambassadors, then dutiful, knowing his Word, and have correct and blessed understanding of the Spirit of His Word, that we may represent well; and that God find us always in his presence as caring for his holy house, of whom we are citizens of one another, even brothers and sisters in Spirit.

Therefore, the heart of Jesus does trust in us whom are not ashamed of Jesus, but recognize that there is none other Lord and God by whom all things were created, and there is none other Savior of our life who can deliver from death and hell, except this Jesus, the Christ of God. Whom being so upright and obedient unto his Father, was and is, and shall always be Righteous, that the strength of his house is fulfilled in the wearing of Jesus Christ as our clothing, and the polishing and care of the things of God be our ornaments, which we do not forsake, and that clothing of God, which we do keep clean, lest they who are as we were before, find fault in us, that they might have vain occasion to disregard our faith as foolishness, that they may gainsay upon us, casting our confidence down closer to them, that they may equate themselves unto the people of the Lord. But the divine virtue of God, being separate from the fashion of this world is righteous and does have infinite glory; the light of that virtue shining strength unto the countenance and manner of all those whom are zealous in the love of the profession of ‘faith,’ their works being according to their faith, and this, according to their wholehearted love and acceptance of the light of the knowledge of the promises of God, yea, according to that Word and the Holy Spirit of His Word, God, the Lord Jesus Christ.

That the virtuous son and the virtuous daughter not be beguiled by themselves or others, or through the conditioning of the apathy of the world that remains in rebellion to God, God having provided something better unto them, that they shall no longer live unto the dead hope of this world, which has despised God, going its own way; seeking to figure out its own salvation, after their own imagination and beguilings; creation trying to surpass the creator; which is the vanity and conundrum of Adam and Eve and Satan; whom have dead spirits, and in whose offspring and kingdom their is darkness of spirit and dimness of soul; desolation and coldness of heart, unsoundness of mind, and ever-contorted souls with seared minds, who think they are free, but are in the dregs of bondage unto Satan, for those whom have refused the gentle waters and peaceful ways of God, have gotten unto themselves a mind and heart of covetousness, thinking gain is advantage, and are beholden to drink and meat for the belly, and the begetting of a pleasant life, that they might be happy and safe, and at peace.

But we have virtue, and our the inheritors of greater things, and our life is not meat and drink for the belly, but of the gifts of God; profound gladness of heart, and soundness of mind, and peace unto our souls, which are healed and aright with God, whom has given us a ‘covering,’ having justified us through sanctification of us with his Holy Spirit in us, making us virtuous.

And if it is so that God has made you virtuous, strengthen and find the path by which you shall be an instrument of God; finding in meekness unto the light of the knowledge of the Word and Spirit of God what and how you shall do ‘daily work’ that your day may be acceptable unto God and that you may rejoice that you lived today unto the Lord, after the manner of Jesus, whom God has said is God, and has established His mountain upon all the mountains of the world, having called a great multitude of people of all nations, being made virtuous. Yea, the precious sons and daughters of God, of whom we learn of in the authorized King James Holy Bible; born before the birth of Jesus on earth, whom was before them also, being the everlasting Light of God, and they, the saints, who are us, being not worthy in and of ourselves to unloose his shoe latchet; yet, now we are ‘these virtuous people,’ and will do the Bridegroom good and not evil all the days of our life; and we shall have mercy on ourselves as the Lord has had mercy on us, and we shall be merciful with all, and gracious, and loving and kind, for unto us is given a great position and task, ‘they shall judge righteously the world,’ and plead for the cause of the poor and needy: whom are the holy brethren; those meek in Spirit, whom see and understand the utter need they have for the loving favor and care of the Lord, having understanding that to be in the presence of God is beyond what this world has to offer.

And if we have died unto the world, being of no use to its vanity which causes desolation, yet we live through the Spirit, then we are the helpers of this world unto God, and we do live, and the strength of our life does extend virtue unto others, and we do perceive the presence and closeness of God, and that makes our day simply divine, for our life is no longer unworthy, but God has called us worthy, and if worthy, then we do matter and are precious unto him, and if precious, — then we have arrived and are in the presence of his loving majesty, who has blessed and bestowed us with his graciousness.

Therefore, let not your mind or any power beguile you away from your divine inheritance, nor the knowledge of that inheritance, which is found in the Words of the Lord of your heart, who does give you understanding, that he is one Lord, and there is none other, and we are always in his presence, and as his royal people, we are in the presence of the world, of whom we were once as, but now we have our dead spirits having been quickened and we are alive, yea, more than alive; we walk with God in us, and in the degree of our meekness to God we increase and decrease our virtue, even the zeal of our faith which can be seen in the rendering of our daily work: such work being sacrifices of joy, and the strength of a cheerful heart in spite of longsuffering, and patience which offers the work of being gentlehearted in the midst of one’s tribulation, or that of others; for we stand because of God, to represent God, who has called us to represent him in perfect obedience to the Spirit of His Word, — even those whom are truly virtuous, and their virtue does remain, and they do shine brighter and brighter.

These are they who are free, and strong; these are lighthearted and have the Light of God, and they do rejoice, and the love of God for them is strength and water, and the meat of their sustenance, and the oil of faith, which is of God, does not decrease, nor weary, and so, they have the spirit of a champion, that Jesus whom our soul loves; whom, him in us has made us of strong ones of God.