As I write this, my youngest daughter is thirty-seven, it seems that my daughters’ birthdays, more than mine, make me feel my age: how is it possible that the youngest of my three daughters is almost forty years old??
But these ephemeral thoughts about aging give way to reflections on the past, how it was easier to raise children three decades ago (the funny thing is that I remember my mother telling me the same thing when my daughters were young). raise my daughters to withstand the gigantic wave of feminism that threatened their femininity. My daughters are now competent and dedicated mothers. But the world seems scarier than it was then and motherhood is a more difficult task. How will my granddaughters, so happy and carefree in their childhood as girls, resist the lies and insults that the world will surely throw at them?
- “We cannot assume that a Christian home or a good church will immunize our daughters against toxic feminist messages.
With all the cultural confusion about gender issues, we may be tempted to panic and discard biblical guidance, but we should not hesitate when we follow the gospel’s plan to raise our daughters. Nor can we be apathetic, assuming that a Christian home or a good church will immunize our daughters against toxic feminist messages. Do we need to be alert and cunning? prepare our daughters to discern and reject false teaching about the femininity of our culture (1 Peter 5. 8, Matthew 10. 16). to the scriptures as we follow the same path of faithfulness as the consecrated mothers who preceded us.
Authentic motherhood, now and always, requires authentic planting. When we grow a garden, we don’t throw the seeds to the ground at random and wait for impeccable rows of our favorite vegetables, but we select our seeds and plant them directly. lines to get a good harvest. Similarly, we must be intentional when we plant seeds of biblical femininity in the lives of our daughters.
In simple terms, biblical femininity is God’s charming project for women, as the Bible reveals; Indeed, when Paul tells Titus how to build a church, which illuminates a dark and evil age, with the gospel, he tells him to make sure that older women pass on the hearts and habits of divine femininity to women (Titus 2. 3-5).
As Christian mothers, we must not fail to include the foundations of biblical femininity in the education of our daughters. Think about it: am I preparing my daughter to be the kind of woman strong enough to submit to her husband?Is it the difficult task of raising children?Smart enough to see how the study of history, hermeneutics and horticulture can be used in your mission of evangelization?
“Just because I’m a woman doesn’t make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I’m a Christian makes me a different kind of woman,” Elizabeth Elliot wrote. If we want to raise our daughters Different types of women?nonconformists in a furious world, rebelled against the gospel? We need to make sure we give them strategic and specialized training.
We must teach them the beauty and basis of biblical femininity through our faithful (albeit imperfect) example and our gracious teaching: “By the constant love of Christ, the mother who sows with tears will mingle with joy. “
We must also remove the weeds from the feminism that our culture sows and that can take root in the hearts of our daughters. When my daughters were still in their teens, I realized that despite my best efforts to cultivate the heart and biblical habits. femininity, some feminist ideas had penetrated their thoughts, I decided to study with them the book of Elisabeth Elliot, Let me be a woman God for women.
More importantly, true motherhood requires faith. We put the seeds in the soil, but at first we do not see how or even if they grow; we just look, water and repeat. The seeds will only germinate if we plant them, they will not survive unless we weeds are weededs, they will only bloom if we get wet But in the end we must trust in God to induce growth (1 Corinthians 3. 6). He promises that we will harvest a harvest if we do not give up (Galatians 6. 9).
How can we still not give up? Let us remember that no matter how our culture evolves and changes, the truth, relevance, and power of the scriptures will remain; God is always in charge. From generation to generation, he sits on the throne, reigns over periods, stars, and giant waves of feminism (Ps 29:10), he is the God who sustains us every day, every bad day (Ps 68:19). Thanks to the constant of Christ. love, the mother who sows with tears will harvest with joy (Psalm 126,5).
[i] N. E. : Kathleen Nielson’s book What God Says About Women, Faithful Editor, is very appropriate for young women to know God’s perfect plan for women.