Lately
God has been teaching me a LOT about what it means to be a godly woman. This is
something that seems to bring me great joy and excitement as I learn more and
more about it, and what good would that be if I didn’t share that with others?
Allowing others to get involved I hope will not only be an encouragement to
someone who needs a challenge, but I’m hoping others will also share their
thoughts, opinions, and convictions as well so we can grow together as the
family of Christ. Isn’t that what we’re here for? So, I plan to journey through
the Bible with you (very slowly), examining every story involving women we can
find, and pulling out every morsel of truth we can. I want to dig deep into God’s
word together, seek His glorious plan for each of our lives, and learn how he
wants to make us beautiful..and I need you to hold me to it!
Let’s start with Genesis 2:18-24:
“Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will make a helper fit for him.’ Now out
of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every
bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call
them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The
man gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to
every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for
him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he
slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that
the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the
man. Then the man said, ‘This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’ Therefore a man
shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall
become one flesh.”
I know this
passage is probably one you’re familiar with, and I don’t have much to say, but
when I reread it for the purpose of this study, I had the mindset of how
precious we are to God. (To have a better idea of what was on my mind check out
the post “The Most Glorious Gem” on ourfireyouth.blogspot.com.) This made me notice something I hadn’t before.
In verse 19 it says that God had formed every creature from the dust, and we
know from 2:7 that Man was formed from the dust as well. This makes Woman the
only one who was not created directly from the dirt, for she was made from a
rib of Adam’s. This makes us pretty special in my opinion. I don’t know about
you but I think it will be an exciting adventure discovering what God was
thinking when he formed this unique creation =)
“An excellent wife who can find? She is far more
precious than jewels.” ~ Proverbs 31:10
Now it’s your turn; share your thoughts! What did I miss
that you noticed?
