What does it mean to really be a woman? How do we step into all that God intended us for? Women are a complicated and beautiful creation, and each one is different. I know that this sounds exactly like what everyone else says, but so often we fail to realize the truth of the matter.
Womanhood is a glorious thing, meant by our creator to be the crown jewel of all that He made. How many of us not only want to be a Princess that is swept away by the Prince, but also the Queen who is wise, and a force to be reckoned with. I personally do not want to be saved by a Price, but a King. We all long to be beautiful, and capable, intelligent, and strong. We are not only drawn to the beautiful and intricate things, but also bold and confident things (why do you think that we go for the bad men?). This is the nature of God in us.
God has intended us to be both, sure sometimes the beauty comes more easily, and sometimes the confidence comes more easily, but when we read of the women in the Bible we see both. Esther, the beauty of the Court, stood up to save her people. Ruth, humbly and innocently went to the man who would decide her fate and made him stand up and fulfill his duty to her. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was soft and kind, and yet she had the strength and determination to stand before a people who would have stoned her and bear the Son of God.
We have both, and all of us have it. We see all of the women today in Hollywood who strive and spend millions of dollars to look their best, we try to mimic them and we spend countless hours and all of our paychecks in order to be what the world calls "beautiful." We do not see the beauty that we already have.
What is it that makes us beautiful and strong? What must we do to accomplish this goal that we ever strive to meet? There is a way, a way full of danger to make us strong, full of beauty to bring us joy, full of love to make us blossom, and full of fire to burn off the things that would tell us that we are not beautiful. This is the way of the Queen, it is the way that we all must go in order to find what we are looking for. This is the way of Christ.
Only when we realize how much Jesus loves us, and has come for us will we see what we are truly meant to be. I am still on this journey, I can see a light, I have seen Him. I know the one who created me, the one who died for me, my King, my warrior the one who gives me beauty and strength. He has shown me who he made me to be, and I strive every day to meet that goal. Not the goal of Hollywood to be so skinny that I hurt myself, not the goal of the feminist who would have me work and leave the things that I love to someone else, but the beautiful glowing Queen who knows who she is, what she is doing, and why she is doing it. That is what I am striving for. He is who I am striving for. And I will lay it all down for Him, the verse above talks about the passion with which He peruses me, and what it is that makes me fly.
This blog is my raw thoughts, it is not refined (yet) nor is it exactly what I wanted to say when I first began to write, but I hope that someone who reads it will be inspired to seek God and find the wonderful glorious Queen that He has made her to be, and that she will know that it is not Prince Charming who loves her, but the King of Heaven and Earth, the Lord of all peoples, the warrior, the beloved, the one who gave it all to save her.
Womanhood is a glorious thing, meant by our creator to be the crown jewel of all that He made. How many of us not only want to be a Princess that is swept away by the Prince, but also the Queen who is wise, and a force to be reckoned with. I personally do not want to be saved by a Price, but a King. We all long to be beautiful, and capable, intelligent, and strong. We are not only drawn to the beautiful and intricate things, but also bold and confident things (why do you think that we go for the bad men?). This is the nature of God in us.
God has intended us to be both, sure sometimes the beauty comes more easily, and sometimes the confidence comes more easily, but when we read of the women in the Bible we see both. Esther, the beauty of the Court, stood up to save her people. Ruth, humbly and innocently went to the man who would decide her fate and made him stand up and fulfill his duty to her. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was soft and kind, and yet she had the strength and determination to stand before a people who would have stoned her and bear the Son of God.
We have both, and all of us have it. We see all of the women today in Hollywood who strive and spend millions of dollars to look their best, we try to mimic them and we spend countless hours and all of our paychecks in order to be what the world calls "beautiful." We do not see the beauty that we already have.
What is it that makes us beautiful and strong? What must we do to accomplish this goal that we ever strive to meet? There is a way, a way full of danger to make us strong, full of beauty to bring us joy, full of love to make us blossom, and full of fire to burn off the things that would tell us that we are not beautiful. This is the way of the Queen, it is the way that we all must go in order to find what we are looking for. This is the way of Christ.
Only when we realize how much Jesus loves us, and has come for us will we see what we are truly meant to be. I am still on this journey, I can see a light, I have seen Him. I know the one who created me, the one who died for me, my King, my warrior the one who gives me beauty and strength. He has shown me who he made me to be, and I strive every day to meet that goal. Not the goal of Hollywood to be so skinny that I hurt myself, not the goal of the feminist who would have me work and leave the things that I love to someone else, but the beautiful glowing Queen who knows who she is, what she is doing, and why she is doing it. That is what I am striving for. He is who I am striving for. And I will lay it all down for Him, the verse above talks about the passion with which He peruses me, and what it is that makes me fly.
This blog is my raw thoughts, it is not refined (yet) nor is it exactly what I wanted to say when I first began to write, but I hope that someone who reads it will be inspired to seek God and find the wonderful glorious Queen that He has made her to be, and that she will know that it is not Prince Charming who loves her, but the King of Heaven and Earth, the Lord of all peoples, the warrior, the beloved, the one who gave it all to save her.
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