Do You Care About Biblical Womanhood?

I frequent Girl Talk's website because I find wisdom and encouragement there as I strive to understand God's calling in my life.

In a recent post, Carolyn Mahaney gives some reasons why she writes on this blog despite not enjoying writing. She says it is because she cares about biblical womanhood and so shall do what she can to promote it. This is what she writes:

I care about biblical womanhood because I love God’s Word.
I care about biblical womanhood because I long to promote God’s glory.

I care about biblical womanhood because I want to spread the gospel.

You see, Scripture, and what it says about Who created woman and what he created her to be and do is under assault from our post-modern, feminist-fed culture—at every point.

They belittle a woman’s calling in the home, marginalize motherhood, sneer at modesty, and abhor wifely submission. Yet these qualities are all an intrinsic part of God’s perfect, exquisitely beautiful design for women.

I have to ask myself, " Do I love God's Word, desire the spread of the gospel and the promotion of God's glory so much that I am willing to do my measly bit with the opportunities, people, and gifts God has given me?"

Living out and promoting biblical womanhood is not popular, but necessary for the sake of the gospel and the promotion of the glory of God.

So, in order to live this out and lead other women, especially my own daughter to live out life to the glory of God I really need to understand correctly God's call for women. His word is clear, yet often I muddy it in the way I portray it and understand it myself. It is good to meditate on the scriptures that directly speak to women as well as read good books on the subject; but we ought not stop there. I think we need to surround ourselves with women who desire God above all else and seek to put His principles into practice even though it doesn't fit the mold of our culture and costs them respect and popularity.

We need women who care about biblical womanhood because they love God’s Word, want to spread the gospel, and long to promote God’s glory.

How about it ladies, are you ready to do your measly bit? You older, godly women are desperately needed today........

^{Titus 2:3-5}

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

Proverbs 31:10-31

description of a Worthy Woman

An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
And he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
She looks for wool and flax
And works with her hands in delight.
She is like merchant ships;
She brings her food from afar.
She rises also while it is still night
And gives food to her household
And portions to her maidens.
She considers a field and buys it;
From her earnings she plants a vineyard.
She girds herself with strength
And makes her arms strong.
She senses that her gain is good;
Her lamp does not go out at night.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff,
And her hands grasp the spindle.
She extends her hand to the poor,
And she stretches out her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household,
For all her household are clothed with scarlet.
She makes coverings for herself;
Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Her husband is known in the gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them,
And supplies belts to the tradesmen.
Strength and dignity are her clothing,
And she smiles at the future.
She opens her mouth in wisdom,
And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
She looks well to the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:
"Many daughters have done nobly,
But you excel them all."
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
Give her the product of her hands,
And let her works praise her in the gates.

Proverbs 12:4
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who shames him is like rotteness in his bones.

Proverbs 14:1
The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

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