Does being a virtuous woman mean you have to be perfect?

Here's Nancy Lee-Demoss.

You know, it's more important in your home and in your marriage

that you model humility than that you model perfection.

Your husband and your children already know you're not perfect.

They're just looking for you to admit it.

To acknowledge it when you do blow it.

It's Friday, February 16th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Do you ever read Proverbs 31 and feel like giving up?

The description of a virtuous woman we read there can seem intimidating, but there's good news.

Even if Proverbs 31 doesn't describe you currently, it still could, thanks to God's forgiveness.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss in a series called The Countercultural Woman. We're looking at what one commentator has called a looking

glass for ladies. Proverbs chapter 31, and we came yesterday to the beginning of that portion, verse 10, where the scripture

gives us a description of a woman of God, a virtuous woman, an excellent woman. And Matthew Henry,

that commentator, said that this is a looking glass for ladies that we should desire to look into

and to dress ourselves by it.

And we've been reminding each other that even though this lengthy, detailed description

can seem overwhelming and intimidating to those of us who still have feet of play and are not

yet glorified, yet we ought to be encouraged because we know that as women of God,

if we're allowing God to work in our lives, he is sanctifying us, he is molding us,

he's shaping us, he's pruning us, he's making us into this kind of woman who reflects the beauty

and the image of the Lord Jesus. For indeed it really is his portrait that we're looking at

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