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The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast) · Ascension

Girls to Women: Choosing a Wife

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“Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
He begins by situating the listener in the first days of Lent. He describes the season as a battle to become right with God, to deal with what is dragging us down, and to nurture what helps us grow. He then refers back to last week’s show on choosing a husband and says that if a young lady is looking for a husband, she should print Psalm 112 out and make notes. He turns the frame around and addresses girls becoming women while choosing a wife, using Proverbs 31 as the text. He says the chapter is surprising and amazing. The point is discernment. The point is also formation. He encourages listeners to watch the chapter carefully and, in his words, be picky. He then moves into the chapter’s description of the capable wife. He treats her as shrewd in a good sense. He connects her work with sowing and reaping and says that is valuable in a spouse. He lingers on the line about strength and repeats the image of girding the loins and making the arms strong. He explains that this is not only about physical fitness but about capability and strength. He shares a story about his wife at the Minnesota State Fair to illustrate the point. He remembers her hanging from a pull-up bar while Marines and onlookers watched, and he uses that story to show quiet strength without needing recognition. He keeps tying the chapter back to daily life and wants listeners to see marriage as covenant work, not appearance alone. He ends by praying for discernment, asking that the listener would look at the heart and choose for the purpose of serving God together with a covenant partner, and he closes by saying next week’s episode will be about how a man deals with cancer.

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Proverbs 31 is used as a direct, practical call to approach marriage with spiritual seriousness.

This episode treats Lent as a serious conversation about marriage, using Proverbs 31 to focus on character, strength, and the kind of spouse a person should hope to become.

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If you are weighing marriage by character, this one points you to Proverbs 31.

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