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The Truth About Your Sweet Feminine Self

There was a lot of commotion out there this past weekend regarding our role as women in our society and in this world. If we are not careful, we can get ourselves caught up in trying to find our self-worth from someplace outside of God’s Word.

To be crystal clear: our value, our self-worth and our acceptance will never come from a law, a march or a shifting-sand political platform. They come to us from one place and one place alone – Jesus Christ.

Remember this: God-given identity is true for all women. Every single soul has value and is an image bearer of the one who created her — whether she knows Him or not.

In Genesis 1 and 2, God created the heaven, the earth and everything it in it. Each time something was created, He said it was ‘good’ – until He created man. After man’s creation, God decided something wasn’t good.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” – Genesis 2:18

You have seen this verse before and in some translations the word ‘helpmeet’ is in place of the word ‘helper’. 

Helpmeet? Helper?

They sound kind of weak, don’t they? Both words feel like God created us to stand a few steps back with eyes lowered to the floor. No abundant life for us – we simply are here to ‘help’.

But it isn’t so.

In the original language, ‘helpmeet’ is translated back to the Hebrew word ‘ezer’ and this word has a very, very different meaning.

The word ‘ezer’ means, strength, power, and rescue. One commentator translates it as a strong power and lifesaver!

So, let’s take a look at Genesis 2:18 again and place the real meaning in the text.

The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a strong power and rescuer for him.’

Our sweet Lord created us not as an afterthought, but as the crowning glory of His perfect creation!

This world was not complete – and neither was man – until our feminine strength, fueled by God’s power, arrived on the scene! He has given us large hearts to love and carry life – by our very nature, we are life givers, lifesavers and rescuers.

And anything that goes against how God created us, goes against Him.

Now girls, ever since Eve tangled with sin, our God-given qualities have been distorted. Oh my, how they have been twisted and turned and defiled!

It’s no wonder so many of us have searched for our identity and value in unsafe places.

But the truth is, no matter how messed up our value may be in our own eyes or in the eyes of others, it has never ever changed in the eyes and heart of the One who made us.

We are life-bearers.

We rescuers and lifesavers.

We possess God’s strong power expressed through our big feminine hearts.

We are smart and possess keen intuition & wisdom via the Holy Spirit.

We are valuable.

We are servant leaders.

We have God-given dignity.

And so does every little girl on this earth and those yet to be born.

All are image bearers of God Almighty.

The Bible is full of women who used the attributes God created them with to influence their world for His glory.

One such woman was Esther.

Her name means ‘star’ and it is so appropriate! She used her strong power to be a bright light in a very dark time. Her courage, strength and keen wisdom led her to become the lifesaver of her beloved people.

There is also Rahab, Mary, Elizabeth, the Samaritan woman and on and on. These women — and many, many more (some named and some unnamed), have left us a legacy as God’s crowning glory.

Creation wasn’t complete without our feminine strong power!

As designed, we can illuminate His voice of life, calm, wisdom, kindness, love, empathy, loyalty and of understanding in this lost and hurting world.

We don’t need anyone out there to affirm our dignity or value. We don’t have to go looking ‘elsewhere’ for it either. It’s ours. We only have to look at God’s perfect creation and listen to the lives of our sisters in the pages of scripture.

Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. – Hebrews 13:7b

Blessings to you, my girlfriends!

41 thoughts on “The Truth About Your Sweet Feminine Self”

  1. Ellen Hammond

    This weekend’s commotion weighed heavy on my heart. This was a wonderful reminder of who we are and should be as women of God.Thank you friend.

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  5. Ruth

    I love the thought that our value never changes in the eyes of our Creator! People can be so finicky, but not God! He never changes, nor do His truth and love and power!

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  8. Liz

    I love how you drilled down into what helper means! You’re a #WORDNerd, indeed! Praying all women would come the the freeing knowledge of their true with in God’s eyes. Blessings!

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  10. Brenda

    What a beautiful post. It’s sad to see the emptiness that so many are trying to fill with “rights.” — Thanks for sharing, Laura. I don’t believe we’ve crossed paths before. Nice to meet you! ((grace upon grace))

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    1. LauraAdmin

      Nice to meet you too, Brenda. I agree– the Christian faith is counter culture. We give up our rights to be His and we are given a new and secure identity — one of value and acceptance that nothing in this world can offer. xo

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  11. Edith Ohaja

    This is insightful and so timely. We are not less than we should be except we are listening to the wrong voices. God’s way is best and we are precious. Trashing ourselves by behaving unseemly in the name of marches will only degrade the participants further, even in the eyes of the world they think are applauding them now.

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  15. Meg Gemelli

    These are important, important truths that your sharing this week. Feminine identity clouds every situation we encounter. When it sways like the breeze, we definitely open the door to heartbreak and judgement. Great post Laura!

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  17. Sherry

    The women in that march are truly deceived by Satan. Their spitting and vulgarity was proof enough to what they were owing their cause to. If they only knew how much more they would be loved and cherished by their creator! Thanks for pointing out the biblical references as to where our value truly is in God’s kingdom!

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  18. LauraAdmin

    Sherry – It truly is a spiritual battle and our best weapons are prayer and God’s grace. Thanks for coming by.xo

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  19. Lori Schumaker

    Laura,
    I could not love this more! You did such an incredible job of describing the identity of a woman from her initial creation. Beautiful! Identity is something I am focusing on this year as I write so this really resounded with my spirit! Can’t wait to share this! Thanks so much for sharing hope alongside me at #MomentsofHope ♥
    Lori

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    1. LauraAdmin

      Lori- Thanks so much for your thoughtful words and for sharing too. It means a great deal to me when something I’ve written is “share-worthy”. 🙂 I am sure you understand. This is the most “shared” post I’ve written to date and I assume it is because it came on the heels of the women’s march, which troubled so many Christian women. We MUST stay clear on our true identity. So grateful you are focusing on it in 2017. I will be reading! xo

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  21. Dawn

    Women affirming women is such a powerful gift, Laura. We need more and more if it. The Titus 2 ministry is one that is so necessary but sometimes easily missed in our modern congregations. And these women in His Word are such beautiful testimonies of strong, powerful, submissive women who love God and love others through it. Thanks for sharing your heart here and for linking this up at the #GraceMoments Link Up.
    Blessings,
    Dawn

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