Caroline asked me this question this afternoon, and it really hit me. What kind of woman DO I want to be? Am I making the right choices and pursuing the things that will help me to become that woman?By God's grace, I want to be a woman whose actions and words preach the gospel. I want my life to display "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." (2 Corinthians 4:6)
By God's grace, I want to be a woman that is growing in the "imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious." (1 Peter 3:4)
By God's grace, I want to "learn quietly with all submissiveness." (1 Timothy 1:11)
By God's grace, I want my speech to "always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer each person." (Colossians 4:6)
By God's grace, I want to learn to be "self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind and submissive to [my] own husband (sometime in the future, of course), that the word of God may not be reviled." (Titus 2:5)
By God's grace, I want the wisdom from above which is "first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere." (James 3:17)
By God's grace, I want to learn to "keep loving one another earnestly." (1 Peter 4:8)
May this all be for His glory, so that the cross becomes greater in mine and the eyes of those around me.
7 comments:
wow. i agree. i want to be all these things too. thanks for posting this shannibabe :) i never really thought about it this way, and thank you for adding the Bible verses...<3 cabbie
mmm, that was beautiful and got me thinking as well. thank you. :)
"for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces"
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Jesus is so lovely in you.
Wonderful how each attribute you desire is accompanied with a Scripture. All of the guidelines for us as believing women are in the scriptures. So relieving. I love you for the woman of God that you are and the woman you desire to be <3
amen. That's a lovely picture.
SHANNON! I love those pictures of you, Bond and Caroline in D.C.!
Wow. You got me thinking as well. Whatever woman I want to be, that woman has to be rooted in these beautiful passages you provided. I think the God-fearing, quiet woman is a force to be reckoned with and there are fewer and fewer to look to as role models in today's world. This is almost like a rally cry for female believers. I love it.
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