Biblical Womanhood? What’s that?

What IS a woman? 

To find the answers, we must look to the One Who created women to get our worldview. God’s Word alone must be our standard as true believers. 

What characteristics does God use to describe a godly woman and what is God’s will for women who are wives and mothers? 

Of course God’s 1st will for us as women is to 

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind,' and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself'" (Luke 10:27).

If we don’t love God, we will not have any desire to obey His Word or follow His ways. We won’t be able to love our husband or children if God is not 1st in our lives. 

After this, I believe we will have the desire to obey Titus 2 as women. 

It’s nearly impossible to read or quote from Titus 2:4-5  without offending someone. God calls this teaching  “Sound doctrine” 

“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.(maligned, mocked, reproached, shamed, disgraced, slandered, reviled, dishonored) 

That’s pretty strong language for something most consider to be no longer relevant.

God’s general will for most women is to marry, bear children, and guide the home.

(1 Timothy 5:14) 

To be “Workers at home”-1 Timothy 5:14

To bear children, manage the home, 

 (1 Timothy 5:10,14, Titus 2:4,5)

To keep the house and be a joyful mother of children. (Psalm 113:9)

To be meek (mild tempered, yielding) and quiet spirited. (1 Peter 3:4)

Submissive to her husband as unto the Lord. ( 1 Peter 3:5) 

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Proverbs 14:1

 

She is virtuous and is a crown to her husband. Proverbs 12:4 

She looks well to the ways of her household. (Proverbs 31:27)  

She is man’s helpmeet if she’s married. 

“And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” Genesis 2:18

Women were created to be a helper for man, not vice versa. 

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control. 

(1 Timothy 2:11-15)

“She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.” Proverbs 31:20 She provides not only for her families needs, but for the needy around her. 

“Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine, flourishing WITHIN YOUR HOME.” 

Psalm 128:3-4

God’s good plan for women hasn’t changed. How much of our convictions and opinions come from what we’ve learned from the world rather than God’s Word?

Trustworthy- “The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.” Proverbs 31:11

She faithfully teaches her children the ways of the Lord. (Proverbs 1:8-9) God gave this responsibility to mothers and fathers. Parents are responsible for raising and training their own children. Yes, others may contribute to that training, but it’s the parent’s God given responsibility.

In a day and age where society is confused about Biblical manhood and womanhood, we must stand for Truth.

If you are a woman, embrace God’s good plan for you. 

Women were created to be nurturers, motherly, feminine, meek, and gentle.

Men were created to rule, conquer, protect, provide, and lead.

“But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.“ 

1 Corinthians 11:3

“And you will desire to control your husband,
 but he will rule over you.” Genesis 3:16

The curse (sin) has caused women to desire to rule over man. 

Today’s worldly woman is loud, domineering, bossy, rough, haughty, self willed, head strong, unwilling to submit to God’s ways and then gets upset at the caos and unrest this lifestyle produces.

“Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” Genesis 5:2

I pray that God will expose every worldly and humanistic thought pattern that does not line up with the Bible, man made traditions that are not grounded in Truth.

When we embrace God’s picture of womanhood we are saying to the world, “there is a distinction between a man and a woman”.  Today it is countercultural for a man to act like a man and a woman to act like a woman. Society wants to blur those distinctions as much as possible, another tactic of the enemy.

Even single women with no children can still embrace God given womanhood by nurturing, loving, helping, encouraging, serving, feeding, adopting, mentoring, or embracing the children around her in the church, family, and community. 

God has created women to be nurturers, single or not. 

Opportunities abound to pour out our love on the children around us. 

Ephesians 5:17 says, “Do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.” God’s will for us is to be sanctified, set apart for Him, being confirmed to His image. 

If God created you a woman, embrace what God calls “good things, proper for sound doctrine” found in Titus 2 and all throughout the Bible and you will see that 

His ways do not bring bondage as the feminists try to tell us, but freedom.