A Return to Biblical Womanhood
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female, He created them.
Genesis 1:27
A Christian woman’s true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate – humble obedience – but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.
~Elisabeth Elliot
It is becoming increasingly apparent across generational lines, inside the church and out, that we have lost the wonder of our distinctive makeup and calling as women. The lies of the culture have taken their toll and it is time for us to return to and recover the truths of biblical womanhood.
“Woman” was the beautiful handiwork of God, our Creator. We are not to look to our culture to define our identity. Everything that we are and everything that we do must be rooted in God.
It’s not mere chance that we are women – our gender is not accidental. You and I did not become feminine because someone gave us a doll and put a dress on us—we were born feminine because we were created feminine. The feminist doctrine of our time upholds the notion that femininity is a matter of cultural conditioning. Many feminists argue that the only essential difference between men and women is our anatomy, but Genesis teaches otherwise.
Because God created male and female, we women are innately feminine. Granted, a woman can accentuate her femininity or she can detract from it, but she cannot change it— our sex chromosomes are in every cell of our bodies. Our femininity is a gift of grace from a loving God.
What is femininity? We can refer to it as womanliness or womanhood, a set of attributes, behavior and roles that are generally associated with girls and women. As Christian women, we must come to define womanhood based not on the culture, or even what some in the church might say — what we are after is biblical womanhood, what God’s Word teaches us about His design and purpose for women.
My heart as a woman who takes her Titus 2 role seriously, is to use
“GIRL TALK” as an opportunity to have important conversations about biblical womanhood. It is my hope that as we come to the Word of God together to discuss this topic, we will destroy the lies that come against God’s beautiful design for women.
I hope you will join me over the next several weeks to recover, restore and return to the truths of biblical womanhood that we may live in the joy and freedom of God’s intended plan.
To think about this week —-
How do you see the enemy at work in the culture today to destroy the distinct differences between male and female?
