Prov.31.10 - Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is worth more than precious rubies.
Kgs.4.1 - One day the widow of one of Elisha's fellow prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, "My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the LORD. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves."
2Kgs.4.2 - "What can I do to help you?" Elisha asked. "Tell me, what do you have in the house?Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil," she replied.
2Kgs.4.3 - And Elisha said, "Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors.
The woman in the second Text was married to a great man of God and all went well until evil came but she did not build capacity.
Some women build everything but capacity.
Note;
Trouble exposes the stuff we're made of,
Changing times reveal our content,
New seasons reveal what we've learnt,
New seasons expose our capacities or incapacities.
Questions To Note;
What did the woman in the second Text do as a single woman?
What did she learn as she stepped into marriage?
What were her plans for her tomorrow ?
When their children came, what did she do to secure their future at the time?
What was her handwork as a married woman?
What capacities was she willing to develop in her time?
How far did she go in developing them?
Several Capacities To Develop;
- Thinking Capacity
- Emotional Capacity
- Spiritual Capacity
- Responsibility Capacity
- Supportive Capacity
Are we ready for responsibilities?
Its not enough to be virtuous, we must be capable.
What It Means To Be Virtuous;
Being conformed to moral virtues,
Being chaste or morally pure.
To be Capable Means;
- To have capacity,
- To have the ability required for a specific task.
A woman that is virtuous may not prepare for the changing seasons and emergencies that occur to her.
The woman in the second Text didn't know what to do and that's why she ran to the Prophet.
The starting point to build capacity is that we must become aware of what we need, what the true situation is.
There's more to what we can do, what we can give and what we can have.
What To Do;
- We must be willing to pay to know what we don't know,
Proverbs 23:23 Get the truth and don't ever sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and discernment.
- We must be willing to pay to be taught by those who are where we want to get to,
Matthew 25:9 But the others replied, 'We don't have enough for all of us. Go to a shop and buy some for yourselves.'
- We must be willing to practice and develop our strengths,
1Tim.4.15 - Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress.
- We must know that we have capacity that is yet untapped,
2Tim.1.6 - This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.
2Tim.4.7 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful.
We must know that where we are at the moment is not enough because there's more to us,
Know that we can improve, irrespective of how far we've come in life.
We have more in us than we're aware of, and its time to go borrow some vessels to build capacity.