So let us turn to the wife of Christ's preparation manual, to Proverbs 31, and we are going to read all the way from verse 10 through the end of the chapter. But I want us to consider this beyond what we normally would consider the physical ideal wife. I would like us to think about all these words with ourselves in mind regarding what the wife of Christ, who has made herself ready, is to be doing right now.
Consider that night, we will get into this in the next couple of sermons. But she is working in the time of night before the beautiful light of God is always the present.
The gates were typically where the leaders and the rulers were seated, and here we have a picture of her husband, Jesus Christ, our Messiah, sitting there among the elders of the gate as she continues to do her work in this work.
