Her Light Does Not go out

The Last 3 days: I am sorry to all my readers that I am slacking. I had a busy and crazy weekend. It was my birthday on Friday, Saturdays was a me day, and today we were visiting with family. I have been working on being a virtuous woman the past 3 days. The truth is I have succeeded and failed. I have encouraged and enriched my husband in his life, and hopefully encouraged his walk. I have done a quiet time and I am ahead of where we are, but I am going to post a day at a time, and not ramble to much. I am a failure in biting my tongue and staying strong in the Lord. I have not been a virtuous woman to others in my life, especially with teasing some of them, and I am sorry. But this journey has helped me thus far in learning what is virtuous and what is not and how to act. I want my light to shine bright like that of a Virtuous Woman.
(If this sounds likes rambling and non-sense I am really tired)

Her Light Shines Bright At Night.
 Does your life show light? I try to show the light of Jesus Christ in everything I do. I try to demonstrate his love, his love and life were the light. So does your life show the light of Jesus shining through it each and every day? Is your life shining in everything you do? In making dinner, getting the kids off to school, driving to work, at work all day, folding laundry, rocking your babies to sleep? Do you show light in all of those things? I know it can be hard to show the light in everything especially when you are tired and just want to go to bed and ignore everything. Sit back and think about the areas your light might need to shine.

Proverbs 31:18

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

What do you do to benefit your relationship with God and to set the stage for others in your life who are looking at you as a virtuous woman? I stay up some nights very late, ironing cloths, folding laundry, vacuuming the floors, doing dishes all of these things, which makes my lamp stay on, sometimes for many extended hours. I do not do this for me but for my family. I am preparing the way for my girls, I am also setting the stage for my husband, and by being virtuous at home and encouraging him, I am helping him with his walk as well. I don't always want to do this but I do this because everything I do I have little eyes watching me, I want them to see me do these things, not because I feel like I have to but because I am a virtuous woman, and a virtuous woman does this, and does it with a smile on her face, and love in her heart because that's how God would have done it. I might not be selling anything physically but my merchandise is my home. My profit the spiritual and emotional payoff I earn from my kids and husband when I decide to let my light shine not only all night but all day, and in everything I do and everyplace I go. I hope you learn that doing everything you do for the GLORY of the LORD is definitely worth it sometimes we don't want to do things but we need to do them, so we can teach others how to be GODLY.

~Samantha

Prayer

Lord I know sometimes I complain about taking care of my house and doing the things I do not always want to do but have to do. I need to do them without complaining Lord. I do get paid in a way for the things I do. I get paid in the feeling of satisfaction as well as the emotional and spiritual profit of myself and others. Help to know that all the things I don' t want to do but have to do are there for a reason and that doing them is going to make me be more vitruous that not letting my light burn out or be a very dim light, I hope learn that no matter what I have to always have my light shinning through. Help my girls to see me in this virtuous roll doing these things with the light always shinning through me and not because I have to do them but because God wants me to do them.

AMEN.