A Woman's Wisdom: How the Book of Proverbs Speaks to Everything by Lydia Brownback

Author:Lydia Brownback [Brownback, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2012-04-30T07:00:00+00:00

All told, there are four factors that give wise women their self-control. First, they live for something greater than themselves—Christ—and as a result, they desire to be like him. Those who live for Christ find that he is what makes life worth living.

Second, wise women depend on Christ in order to be made like Christ. They live out Jesus’s words: “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me” (John 15:4). Third, wise women apply themselves to putting sin to death with sustained effort. Fourth, they pray for a spirit of moderation, as we see modeled in Proverbs:

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