From the Editor

Your Career

Welcome! This month we will be talking about a woman and her career. You might be saying, “I’m a stay-at-home mom I don’t have a career.” Or perhaps you are thinking, “I work at the grocery store. I don’t think of this job when I hear the word career.” Hopefully, you will find that what’s important is not always what we do, but who we have become in our daily walk.

The Bible should be the guide for every woman who searches for the meaning of her existence. In Scripture, a woman can read that God created her in His own image, and that she can become personally acquainted with Jesus Christ. She will also learn that she must live in close relationship with Jesus.

What career or purpose does God have for your life? You will discover that regardless of age, social status or occupation, we all must face this—our attitude toward God. If He is given the right place in our lives, we become special and useful. When He is absent, or if He is not given His rightful place, then our lives are without true purpose, and without perspective, no matter the career.

Many women work outside their homes as a means of fulfilling their lives. Other women must work to provide a minimal living for their families. Other women work because the family’s expected level of living cannot be met with one paycheck. Regardless of the motivation for a woman to work, the emotional and spiritual needs of the family are the same.

We cannot forget the Proverbs 31 woman when talking career choices. We are not told who she was, but what she was. This rare woman was a model of virtue: trustworthy, industrious, organized, and loving. Yet, amazingly, she was able to order the priorities of her world. Her husband totally trusted her, her grown children voluntarily praised her, and her home was a model of efficiency.

The Proverbs 31 woman found time to reach out to her community and help the poor, even as she increased her family’s resources through wise investments and knowledge of business. Because this woman first feared and reverenced God, relationships and responsibilities were wisely balanced.

Take time to reread Proverbs 31. The book of Proverbs begins with the command to fear the Lord, and ends with the picture of a woman who fulfills this command. Proverbs is very practical for our day. It shows us how to become wise, make good decisions, and live according to God’s ideal—no matter what career we may choose.