"What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions."
If we look back to our prominent Proverb 31 Woman who fears the Lord, we will see how she did everything for her households so that her children and her husband rise up to call her blessed and praised her, "Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."
This woman looked after her own things rather than looking over her shoulder to see what her husband had done or to see what her children had done. When she saw the lack, she will take care of it. "She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands... she brings her food from afar... she dresses herself with strength and made her arms strong..." She's willingly to go out of her way to seek for something that will fill up her households without idleness. She is full of energy. She has the Holy Restlessness. She will ask for what she do not have for the household, not for herself. She didn't spend them for her own passions, but for her households. Therefore, her children and husband turned to bless and praise her!
Don't we all want to be like that woman? Proverb 31 Woman doesn't necessarily apply to women only for it also apply to any men and any children. Let us all run that race with our Holy Restlessness in order to finish it with faith! Let us run like Steve Prefontaine pass those people with t-shirt that read "LEGEND" and those teammates with t-shirt that read "STOP PRE!" Nobody can stop us.
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