Security in the Blood

I read Proverbs 31 today as part of my devo­tional read­ing. There are two parts, one talk­ing about what is fit­ting for a King, another part describ­ing what a vir­tu­ous woman/wife is like.

Some­thing at the end of it made stop and re-read it. This time equat­ing the vir­tu­ous woman as a spir­i­tual type of Jesus’ bride, the Church. A par­tic­u­lar verse jumped out as some­thing very mean­ing­ful to me:

She is not afraid of snow for her house­hold,
for all her house­hold are clothed in scarlet.

Snow is cold,and stands for spir­i­tual cold­ness toward God. Being clothed in scar­let stands for being both cov­ered and cleansed by Jesus’ blood. Thus those all those in the house­hold of God, all those in the Church, should not be afraid of spir­i­tual cold­ness, because they are con­tin­u­ally in the blood of Jesus. We should keep watch, but never be afraid or fret­ful about spir­i­tual coldness.