Day 4 (13 ) She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.




Definition: Seek

To try to locate or discover; search for.

To endeavor to obtain or reach

To go to or toward:

To inquire for; request:

To try; endeavor

Definition: Work
to perform, accomplish, achieve
to do that from which something results
of things: bring about, result in
to fashion, i.e. render one fit for a thing

She is skilled and capable in working with fabric. The modern example would be skilled in things like quilting and sewing, using her hands to create things. And notice that “she works”. There is no hint of laziness in this woman who is praised by God.She “worketh willingly with her hands” She is “willing to get her hands dirty”, as the old saying goes. She is no prima donna! A woman of God is not “above” manual work. Hard work is her motto. It is the essence of her character. It does not scare her, she does not shy away from it.

The Jews have a saying, that there is no wisdom in a woman but in the distaff; suggesting, that it is her wisdom to mind her spinning, and the affairs of her household:

at the Roman marriages, the word "thalassio" was often repeated, which signified a vessel in which spinning work was put; and this was done to put in the brides mind what her work was to be.We understand as women , what work needs to be done as well. And as daughters of God we see to it that we seek after and work hard for the things our family needs. Both temporal and spiritual.

Looking to the spiritual symbolic meaning in this verse we see that,

the wool was used to make outward garments, and the flax linen to make inward garments ; by the one may be meant external principals of living, and by the other internal, acts of religion; both are to be done, and not the one without the other:

She seeketh after these things both temporal and spiritual, both outwardly and inwardly. She is a seeker of his will. The outward acts of virtue which would be wool are, such as hearing the word, attendance to ordinances, and all good works, which make up a wool garment that should be kept; and they should be done so as to be seen of men, but not for that reason: and internal acts of religion that would be the flax linen inward garment are, the fear of God, humility, faith, hope, love, and the exercises of them, which make up the new man, to be put on as a garment; and these should go together; bodily exercise, without inward godliness, profiteth little; and attention to spirituality and internal religion, without regard to the outward duties of religion, are all vain. One may say,

``It is enough to worship and serve God in my mind; what need have I to go to church, and visibly mingle? Such a man would have a linen, without a woollen garment.
One who seeks all opportunities of doing good works externally,and does not seek after the kingdom of God, inward godliness, which lies in peace, righteousness, and joy in the Holy Ghost is clothed in Wool with no linen lining.

She who worketh willingly with her hands;
or, "with the pleasure of her hands" as if her hands took delight in working, as the members of the church does; who are made willing to serve him, as well as to be saved by him; in whose hearts he works, both to will and to do; and these do what they do cheerfully: these do the work of the Lord, not by the force of the law, nor through fear of punishment, but in love; not by constraint, but willingly, having no other constraint but the love of God and Christ; and not with selfish views, but with a view to his glory; and they find a pleasure and delight in all they do; Christ's ways are ways of pleasantness; his commandments are not grievous, his yoke is easy.