Troublesome Topic: Lessons to Be Learned from Proverbs 31

1. A husband and wife need to be able to trust each other completely.

2. In your marriage, seek a unity which unites your hearts on every level.

3. Work for the benefit of others, not yourself, and you will become a lovely person.

4. Living God’s way is the only way to live in victory over self-centeredness.

5. Life is hard and there is little room for laziness.

6. Work toward being prepared for the future, don’t do the bare minimum to just get by for today.

7. Always praise each other and lift each other up, don’t cut each other down.

8. Make it a habit and a priority to help those around you that are in need.

9. Teach your children to not fall for the world’s definition of beauty; the world’s kind of beauty is only skin deep and does not stay around permanently. Inward beauty does remain permanently if we continue to focus on the inward qualities that produce it.

The next lesson in Solomon’s Life and Writings is: Interpret the Song as a Series of Images to Avoid Over-Spiritualizing or Over-Sexualizing

The next lesson in the Roles of Men and Women is: Biblical Masculinity Part 1 Song of Solomon ch 2 & ch 5