Funny, I could have made my entries more pleasing to look at all this time by using photos. Weeeuuups.

Reflections on “Becoming God’s True Woman”

I am no avid reader, but I would like to be. This book was a really smooth read, maybe because I was interested in the content. Anywho, I’m continuously being enlightened to the brain on worthwhile things, even things I’ve known before. Thank You, Daddy. Just some ideas I’m reflecting on from this book that I want to share now that I’ve finished it:

Society has so brutally distorted God’s purpose for women and their femininity. To be gentle, to be submissive doesn’t suggest weakness. A gentle woman is strong because meekness is strength under control, and self-control is a fruit of the spirit. The feminist movement has raised up generations of independent women eager to be freed from submission to their husbands and ties to their families. But a woman of virtue establishes and tends to her home, both physical and spiritual. She creates an oasis for the people in her life to come and rest in the midst of a tarnished world. Call me crazy, but there is liberty in submission because it means that God intervenes. It’s not an invitation for people to walk all over me; it’s my willful humility among men based on my ever-increasing faith that God intervenes with grace.

All of this is good truth spoken into my life because right now, God tells me that I can humbly submit to the authorities in my life, like my dad. I’m free from the fight to live self-righteously because I can turn to my Father in fervent prayer like Hannah did, with that faith that sets me free.

Also, a sure to be interesting battle is that against my own distorted perception of my beauty. Until now, I’ve not considered my body one with a function, with a purpose. I’ve only scrutinized the appearance of it, as if God created me to look good. I say, that’s what flowers and unicorns are for. I think I’m finally coming to truly understand that I - my stubby hands, my voice, my eyes - everything about me, has been purposed to bring glory to the King. Perpetually! So I can consider working out, not to make myself thin, but to make myself able-bodied to do work, even to clear my mind and make it a stronger opponent against Satan’s lies. I can watch what I eat, not with the intent of counting calories, but because self-control is the evidence of the Lord’s good hand in my life.

Anyway, I feel like I might try and summarize the whole book. The point is that I am more encouraged to live counter-culturally, be pruned though it may hurt, and seriously dwell in this good Grace, growing in Biblical knowledge and love for the people in my “home.”

Special shout out to my friend! :) “…I hope this can be the genesis of our book-reading, wisdom-seeking journey.”