It’s Good to Be a Girl 2 W2D3

A Resolution to be Champion Biblical Femininity

Day 3

It’s Good to Be A Girl. Part 2

With man’s fall into sin and the decay of the human condition, women soon became downgraded. Throughout the annals of the Old Testament, we see them failing to be treasure, prized, and cherished as the Creator had intended them to be.

Enters Jesus Christ, with the coming of the Messiah in the New Testament, God reaffirmed the significance of women through the life of Christ, who countered a culture that demoted women’s importance and value. 

Do you feel when you look to God, you are reaffirmed of your significance? What do you need to be reassured about?

Yes, although hard to believe He takes me with all my bagage. To know at least one person will never turn His back on me is comforting. I need to be reassured a lot actually…. that I am good enough… that I am liked… that I belong and involved. This is something I am working on. With God I need His reassurance that I am on the right track..

One prime example of His kindness is with the woman of Samaria by the well.

Do you know why it was frowned upon to talk to her?

She was a lower class… and in that time men didn’t talk to woman in public, even their wives. 

Jesus is a revolutionary who never sought to fit comfortably within societal norms but rather to stand against them, to change them, and to present a new world order both to His generation and every successive generation that followed.

Do you feel the need to fit in? Why? 

I really do…..Not that I need to with everyone… but I needed to find where I fit in. Now that I found Christ and surrounded by people who Love the Lord, I am working on self esteem and knowing that God loves me is enough, but the flesh still reaches out for that need to fit in and to always stay on top so to never get hurt or offended. 

Not only did Jesus engaged her in casual conversation but invited her opinions on theological issues that men of His historical age would never have expected a mere woman to be capable of entertaining.

What does this make you conclude about the height God wants us to reach? What we are capable of…..

Jesus knew that this woman was more than what the society labeled her as; just as we are capable of so much more than worldly possible. If we look to God anything is possible. 

Jesus treated her like a person, a person of intelligence, someone who mattered, someone who was as worthy as the Messiah’s “living water” as anyone else.

How does that make you feel about how we treat others?

We tend to be too judgmental, when it is not our place to judge only to love on God’s people. To save the lost and have a heart like His. 

After this encounter with Jesus what did this woman do that we should be doing as children of God?

Went and told whoever she knew about Him!

Being a woman was never a curse to be endured or a trait to be tolerated. It is a gift to be treasured and esteemed. 

Ephesians 5:22-31

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Matthew 2

The Magi Visit the Messiah

Herod; as King of the Jews, was alarmed at the prospect of a usurper. Herod assembled the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the “Anointed One”  was to be born. They answered, in Bethlehem, citing Micah 5:2. Herod therefore sent the Magi to Bethlehem, instructing them to search for the child and, after they had found him, to “report to me, so that I too may go and worship him” – Wikipedia

The Escape to Egypt

However, after they had found Jesus, the Magi were warned in a dream not to report back to Herod. Similarly, Joseph was warned in a dream that Herod intended to kill Jesus, so he and his family fled to Egypt. When Herod realized he had been outwitted by the Magi, he gave orders to kill all boys of the age of two and under in Bethlehem and its vicinity. Joseph and his family stayed in Egypt until Herod’s death, then moved to Nazareth in Galilee in order to avoid living under Herod’s son Archelaus.

In running to Egypt they set in motion another prophecy  V 15……..And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” Again because of this King trying to kill baby Jesus; God sent the family to His next wilderness.

Herod was such a baby about being misled by the Magi; he decided to end this by killing every male children 2 and under. That would bring the percentage of this baby ruining his reign! Think on this for a moment. Even this massacre of little children God protected them. I could not imagine anything more extreme!! A prime example to give our children to God for protection! He has proven that He will do it!

The Return to Nazareth

¹⁹ After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt ²⁰ and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”

When the danger was gone God came to them and let them know it was safe; I like that!

^21-23Joseph obeyed. He got up, took the child and his mother, and reentered Israel. When he heard, though, that Archelaus had succeeded his father, Herod, as king in Judea, he was afraid to go there. But then Joseph was directed in a dream to go to the hills of Galilee. On arrival, he settled in the village of Nazareth. This move was a fulfillment of the prophetic words, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”

God giving Joseph one step at a time and warning him as trouble comes! If we listen as close and as dedicated as Joseph, we may hear where we are to go and the dangers that are ahead.  Everything that happens is for a reason let’s be open to receive.