Do you know how you were designed?
Ah, yes…woman…programmed and empowered with destiny and purpose!
What did God have in mind in I Peter 3: 7, when He wrote
“Husbands live with your wives in an understanding way…
as with SOMEONE WEAKER, SINCE SHE IS A WOMAN”!
I have no doubt, at this point, I have your full attention…
We know that marriage is the proving ground for development of our loyalty to God.
I Cor. 7:11 Understanding His purpose frees us to live within our God-given design and to fulfill the beauty of His intention.
God’s design for Women is to use sensitivity and the truest sense of loyalty to her husband:
(1) To equip and give her tools to fulfill her role on earth, as a giver, not a taker!
(2) To give her direction and purpose in her life
(3) To give her a sense of success and an opportunity to reflect glory back to God
(4) To know fulfillment in her calling and service
(5) To sense acceptance and appreciation for her distinction from man and to man.
(6) To allow her to be the completer and helpmate to her husband
Satan’s evil design for Women is to use sensitivity, and disloyalty to cause in man:
(1) Suspicion in place of trust
(2) Competition in place of unity and oneness
(3) Insecurity in place of giving refuge and comfort
(4) Self-protection in place of exercising protectiveness
(5) Pride of self (man’s ideas and concepts are the same as God’s!) instead of servanthood
(6) Defensiveness and blaming wife in place of brokenness and genuine love.
Our Goal is to fulfill God’s design: To learn to use Satan for God’s Glory
Interested?
HOW DO WE DO THIS?
The purpose and goal being to continually reflect glory back to God by using Satan and his co-horts and their evil, divisive thought patterns, as “springboards”, to remind us to step outside our little world of self-sensitiveness and offenses and pick a needy unsaved person to pray for.
In doing this, we reflect glory back to God, as we pour out our heart for a lost person and resist our self-life! Of course, Satan runs when he realizes God’s power to answer that prayer! The more we are reminded to pray by our needless and petty offenses…the more God is glorified and our loyalty to Him is developed. It’s a win…win.
Our attitudes must reflect HIS grace in life’s situations
and not reflect our self-love…Psa. 119: 1-6
We make the choice…
OK…how are we using our God-given sensitivity… for others, not ourselves?
Who are you loyal to?
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
