I would say my wife is very much a servant. I'm indebted to her for her loyalty.

You help balance me out. You help me see things that I wouldn't notice on my own.

In fact, when we were engaged, I thought this is the kind of woman I want to marry.

She's gone above and beyond to build into our relationship.

I love to hear her sing songs with our kids.

Our daughters turn out like their mom, and if my son can find a wife like her I'll be

thrilled. This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Waldamuth author of

choosing forgiveness for August 26, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. Well, for over three weeks we've taken an in-depth look at Proverbs 31.

We've seen how wise women work hard. They make a priority of their homes. They serve others.

Nancy says if you've listened with us over these three weeks, maybe you've asked yourself a question.

Do I get anything out of this?

What's the reward?

What's the benefit?

You know, if you go and take a job outside of your home, you get a paycheck every week or two weeks or month or whatever

you work and then you see the reward for your work and you see it pretty quickly.

And you may even see it before your paycheck because your boss is going to say thanks, you've done a good job or I appreciate that.

But then you go home to your work and it may be a long time before you feel like you're seeing the paycheck, the reward, the benefit.

Now, in an ideal world, if we were really virtuous women, we wouldn't care about the paycheck, right?

We'd just be serving because we love to serve, we love God, we love people, and that's the kind of heart

we want to have.

But I'm so glad that the scripture lets us know that there is a paycheck coming.

There is a reward. There is a benefit. There is a blessing to be had by committing ourselves to live life at God's way.

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