When Women Love God

I am not so sure that women can hold back their expressions or verbal opinions when they dislike each other or when put in an uncomfortable situations. However what I do know that when they love God the expressions are soft, and glowing and voices are sweet.

Last night I met with 16 women. These women are busy working women, in and out of the home. The group was composed of varied ages, spiritual maturities, and in varied phases in their lives...some raising children, some with empty nests. It is a diverse group. However, these women signed up for this Bible Study for the same reason. They want God's Word, an enhancement of their personal study. I was suprised to see these women didn't join the study in groups...cliques, nor best friends. I saw a lot of individuals who chose to participate after prayer and personal choice, not because "so and so" did. I wasn't too concerned as to who would join the Bible Study but how God would use me to guide these women in this study of Esther. We are using the Beth Moore study entitled "Esther: It's Tough Being A Woman."

I enjoyed these ladies coming in one by one, choosing a seat, and engaging in conversation. It was a sweet sound. I love when women connect. I love when we gather together and put aside opinions, and put on a smile. We may not mean it, and we are trying to be polite, but then God follows through. We remember we are sisters. We are not perfect. We but we have the same Father. Suddenly, peace takes over. I loved what I felt last night. I loved looking around the tables and seeing the soft, calm expressions. I loved the smiles. I loved the laughter that Beth generated in her presentation on DVD. It was a pretty sound. It was feminine and it was genuine. We are going to be alright. We are going to grow. We are going to be obedient to His Word and His purpose and will. It is tough being a woman but maybe together we will ease the load, and like Beth said last night....I wouldn't to "do" anything else (be a woman). It's time for us to love being a woman and get comfortable in our feminine skin.

When women love God, He comes first and our sinful, opinionated hearts either dissolve or settle in bitterness. I choose Love. I choose God's ways. I choose to remember the Love Chapter. Am I sticking my head in the sand? No, I am reaching out and up! Send me Lord your healing rain. I want to love like you, Lord. Ladies, if you are struggling with some one in your circle of influence, in your social/family territory, look to His word.

1 Corinthian 13

The Excellence of Love

1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Just for Fun:

There was this beggar at Lincoln Road. He saw a well-dressed woman who was shopping. He reached to her, and said, "I haven't eaten anything in four days."The women amusingly said, "God, I wish I had your willpower."