May 18

Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun: blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen. — Exod 35:25 BSB

It didn’t harm their hands at all! Some delicate women are like the lilies—they neither labor nor spin. They keep their hands soft and white, believing that any kind of work would ruin the beauty of their fingers. But they are mistaken. The hands that are beautiful in God’s sight aren’t the dainty ones that are never roughened by toil. Hands are beautiful when they fulfill the purpose for which they were made. Hands were made to work, and an idle hand, no matter how delicate or fair, is not a lovely hand!

These women of old had learned to spin, and now they spun for God. Today’s young women may not spin, but they have other talents and skills they can dedicate to Christ.

“Even while we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.’” (2 Thessalonians 3:10)