Reclaiming Biblical Womanhood

The Beauty of Womanhood and God’s Divine Design | Reclaiming Biblical Womanhood

In this sin-filled world and the culture in which we live– everything good that God has created, marriage, gender, womanhood, manhood, and His blueprint, is under enemy attack.

God did not create a genderless being; gender distinctiveness is God’s perfect plan.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 
Genesis 1:31

The world screams perverted messages about womanhood, submission, roles, being a helpmate, and marriage. God has a beautiful design for womanhood, and it truly is remarkable and liberating; it is a high calling! 

During the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, feminist activism—richly diverse both in the women involved and its aims, tone, and strategies—exploded in the United States and worldwide; it had a global effect— forever changing society by expanding women’s rights and opportunities and identities available to women, and it brought destruction, it marred true womanhood. The feminist movement is absolutely not according to God’s divine design, found in the Word of God (Holy Bible).

The women’s liberation movement (WLM)

The women’s liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected significant change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world. The WLM branch of radical feminism, based on contemporary philosophy, vain humanistic philosophy that compromised women radically- and culturally. Men and Women have had to choose between God’s revealed Word and Satan’s counterfeit philosophies.

The women’s liberation movement brought in more promiscuity sexualized women by calling “free sex” a woman’s empowerment that deconstructed the family. More women abandoned the home post; children left abandoned and left to fend for themselves. More children were molested and abused, and divorce ran rampant as a by-product of rebellious children and identity crises.

A woman’s once tenderness and softness, her compassion and nurturing capabilities were turned into, a self-focused life, selfish and self-centered, brash, brutal, and cruel deeming talk, and the feminist slogans began with “demand your own rights,” “what man can do, a woman can do better,” “no man is going to tell me what to do” “I can have it all,” “I’ll do it my way” “knowledge is power” and “girls are dandy made out of candy, boys are rotten made out of cotton.” the absurdity and disgust. The television programs blared with women emasculating men, belittling and weakening men, their egos and manhood.

Without Christ, we are hopeless. 
Romans 3:10-12, 10 as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
(Psalm 14:1-3,Psalm 53:1-3).

With Christ, there is hope; he gives hope to the hopeless and there is freedom

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit (2 Cor 3:18). (Gal 5:1, 13.) (2 Cor. 3:6)

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (Jhn. 6:63). (1 Cor 15:45), (Ps. 51:12), (Isa. 61:1).

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death… (Romans 8:2,15,16).

Truly, God’s Word is powerful and transformational, and there is no other book like the Holy Bible.

When we read the scriptures, may the Holy Spirit line up both mind and heart to His perfect truth and the will of God. The LORD wants to use every part of His Word to conform and shape our view of Him, our view of ourselves, and our view of others.

May we accept His Word, the scriptures about our womanhood, our worth, and beauty in the eyes of our Creator and Redeemer. 

The Beauty of Christ and Biblical Womanhood

I am the rose of Sharon, And the lily of the valleys.

The beloved 

Like a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters

(Songs of Solomon 2:1-2). 

When we can grasp who Jesus is, His character, His deity, when we behold Him, Know Him and Adore Him, we then can know our value and worth in Christ; we will not succumb to the ways of this world or the standards of today’s culture. 

The Shulamite Bride has an innocent beauty; her characteristics are noble, noticeable, and captivating; this reminded me of the scriptures when Jesus said, in Matthew 5:13-14, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.”

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one (Colossians 4:6).

I love how the Shulamite Bride refers to herself as a fertile plain, and she is the Bride who made herself ready, clothed with humility, and adorned with love. 

Solomon indeed picked up on the imagery when she referred to herself as a lily of the valleys. Solomon did not see her as ordinary; she was the opposite of common; he saw her as an extraordinary woman that all others, by comparison, were like unsightly, undesirable thorns. 

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.… 1 cor 1:25-27

Jesus is the True Vine

God’s ways are glorious! 

When we give our lives to Christ and put our faith and confiding trust in the Lord, we are a new creation in Christ, created to bear good fruit by remaining in the Vine, and God is our Vinedresser. He is the True Vine; we are the branches. He prunes, trains, and cultivates us; it is all His work, the Holy Spirit working in us the mystery of godliness; And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:  1 Timothy 3:16, God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

The Greek word translated as “godliness” means “a fitting response to the things of God, which produces obedience and righteous living.”

Christianity is not a system of rules; it is by grace and yielding our lives daily, looking to Him the author and perfecter of our faith.   

“For in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser."  
(John 15:1, John 15:1-17). 

 

 It is His beautiful grace and steadfast love that arrays us with His goodness, the righteousness of Christ the passion of His unrelenting love. 

Unrelenting Love, Protection, and Purpose

The Shulamite Bride says, in Song of Solomon 2:4, He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.  

Banner is a military term; the military used banners to give the troops protection, direction, and purpose. They were an integral part of military strategy. The king cared for the Shulamite bride as if she sat under a great banner. His banner over her was love; this love is expressed adequately between husband and wife in this context (Song 5:8, 8:6-7; Gen 29:20)

The LORD is my banner and protection, provider; He gives me substance, provision, and purpose.

I’m reminded of this verse, Exodus 17:15, Moses built an altar there and named it Yahweh-Nissi (which means “the LORD is my banner”).

There is nothing weak or wimpy about biblical womanhood and being a helpmate. It is a high calling, and God’s divine design is exquisite. “Strength and honor are her clothing”(Proverbs 31:25).

Evil in the Last Days

Here is an example of a weak woman, who chooses her selfish will and to live a life apart from Christ Jesus, 2 Timothy 3:1-7, “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will be present. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, proud, verbally abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, savage, haters of good, betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And turn away from these.

For out of this sort are those entering into households and taking captive weak women, burdened with sins, being led away by various passions, always learning and never being able to come to a knowledge of the truth.”

Christ Jesus, the bridegroom king is worth it all. Be ready for His return and the wedding feast

 One day Jesus will appear, Rapture His Church, claim His bride and take her to the Father’s house; we will join Him at the wedding feast, the wedding supper, and we will dine with the King of kings and Lord of lords. One glorious day. 

Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God” 
(Revelation 19:7-9).

What John’s vision in Revelation pictures is the wedding feast of the Lamb (Jesus Christ) and His bride (the Church) in its third phase. The implication is that the first two phases have already taken place. The first phase was completed on earth when each individual believer placed his or her faith in Christ as Savior. The dowry paid to the bridegroom’s parent (God the Father) would be the blood of Christ shed on the Bride’s behalf. The Church on earth today, then, is “betrothed” to Christ, and, like the wise virgins in the parable, all believers should be watching and waiting for the appearance of the Bridegroom (the rapture). The second phase symbolizes the rapture of the Church, when Christ comes to claim His bride and take her to the Father’s house. The marriage supper then follows as the third and final step. It is our view that the marriage supper of the Lamb takes place in heaven between the rapture and the second coming (during the tribulation on earth). {Source}

God’s design is good, and though we get bombarded by the culture and the ways of this world– with all the world’s lies and lures, God assures us of His absolute truth, His righteous ways.

Let’s Pray,

I come to You in the name of Jesus, LORD Father GOD; You are King Eternal who rules and reigns for all eternity. You are the Mighty God, Holy! Splendor and honor are Yours. Your ways are perfect; Your love is steadfast, arrayed with Holiness; Your righteousness is like the most purifying refreshing spring. Words could never describe Your vastness and who You are. Your divine design and glorious ways are incredible, and Your Words stand the test of time; thank You for Your perfect design for womanhood, thank You that we can have fellowship with You and commune with You. Thank You, LORD, that You minister to us as we can minister to You. Thank You for Your resurrection power, Your transforming power, the Gospel, the good news of salvation. Thank You for the gift of the Holy Spirit. May we walk in Your ways and learn of who You are all the days of our lives. 

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RESOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY

On the Other Side of the Garden | Biblical Womanhood for Today’s World by Virginia Ruth Fugate

Helper by Design |  God’s Perfect Plan for Women in Marriage by Elyse Fitzpatrick

True Woman 101 | Divine Design an eight-week study in biblical womanhood by Mary A. Kassian and Nancy Leigh Demoss

Awaiting His Return,

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