The Woman of God: Becoming a Steer
Virtuous woman, who will find her? Its value far exceeds that of tall jewels; the husband’s heart trusts him and the profits will not be lacking; it brings you good, not bad, every day of your life; Grace deceives and beauty is vain, but the woman who fears the Lord, she will be praised. ?(Proverbs 31)
“Man sees the outside, but the Lord sees the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7)
When the deadline for each girl to come to King Assuerus, after being treated on prescription for women, for twelve months (because this was how the days of her beautification were met, six months with myrrh oil and six months with spices and perfumes and ointments in use in women), then did the young woman come to the king’s house?(Ester 2: 12-13)
I am always surprised by the kind of preparation that future Queen Esr had to pass before he could stand before king Ahasuerus could appear. Would any of us be willing to go through twelve months of beauty treatments before we meet the man of our dreams?Probably not, but imagine the possibility. A year apart for a goal: to become everything you’re capable of being for the one you love the most. A precious time to cultivate beauty, invest in education and etiquette, strengthen virtues and develop character.
Ester’s preparation reminds me of this precious time between the awakening of desire in a young woman’s heart to share her life with a companion, and the moment she goes up to the altar. For many, this preparation time is nothing more than a timeout. Single women often see themselves sitting on the shelf as life goes on, or sitting on the bench while others play. They do not realize that they are wasting the most important period of their lives, deprive themselves of great joy and great reward, deprive their future husbands of a more virtuous wife, and deprive God of ‘a servant through whom he wishes to do great things. .
Just as Esr had to be prepared before she could be queen of an entire kingdom, a woman must also be prepared before she could embark on one of life’s most important and difficult calls: marriage and motherhood. Ester had to learn the customs of the kingdom, in which he lived, he had to learn the practices of courtly life and the intellectual, emotional and spiritual challenges of the higher office; Simply put, Esther had to become queen, customs of the kingdom she was in. she lived, had to learn the practices of court life and challenges before she could have the title and fulfill the role of queen. Similarly, the single Christian woman must learn the customs of the Kingdom of Heaven before being one with God prepares for her. She must prepare herself intellectually, emotionally and spiritually, not for a representative of the court in a pagan temple, but for God Himself, his Word, and other women of God who were prepared before her.
Celibacy is not a waste of time or a condemnation for sitting on a bench, but a time God has especially set aside to make women what He wants them to be and use them in a way that might be impossible after marriage. when a woman must cultivate the virtues that belong to a woman of God, in order to offer her future husband and the world more than a beautiful face.
Remember in your celibacy that you are not the only single woman, but that your future husband is going through the same stage as you, wouldn’t it be terrible to finally meet the man who will become your husband to find out he used his?Celibacy to serve God and prepare you to be a better husband to you, when you did not use the freedom of your celibacy to serve the Lord, didn’t he take advantage of the formation God offered him?The husband spent his days as a single man praying daily for his needs and God’s work in his life, when you have not even prayed for him, nor have you responded to the grace of God that has been given to you as a result of prayers.
It’s a wonderful thing when God blesses a woman with a husband. This special person is perfect for her for what she was, carefully and carefully, designed by God to be one in union with her. It is a pleasure for the woman to look at her, and to remember how God allowed her to wait for her and how faithful he was in blessing her. It is even more pleasing for her to know that her time as a single woman was also a time to seek God and be faithful to her in her plan. . That he didn’t even want to run away from this state for a moment, but he just wanted to trust in God and expect his kind sovereignty.
It is by no means a tragedy to be a Christian, but the way of the world has once again infiltrated Christianity with the misconception that it is. One of the biggest lies is if you don’t have anyone. or are you not looking for someone? there is something wrong with you. Another lie is that single women should go out together as if looking for a husband was like shopping at a mall. An even stronger lie is that the single woman must give him indiscriminate affection for him to convert? More experienced? And learn how to do it when you finally find the man you want. My Christian face is a lie and an affront to God by saying that experience is the best teacher, and although the motto of the world is “live and learn”, the advice of the Bible is “learn and live. ” You don’t need to have experience, you just need to be aware of what God has said and obey him. You should not look for the man of your choice, but you should wait for the man of your choice. And when you do, there will be no past experiences that make your marriage work, but past chastity, purity, and holiness. We must hide our faces from the ways and experiences of this wicked world and only seek what God has placed on the path that He has prepared for us.
God knows exactly what you need and even knows the desires of your heart better than yourself. God loves surprises. He doesn’t want you to look for your husband, he wants to take him away, and probably when you least expect it, if you disobey this advice, like so many other women before you do, and start looking for a partner for yourself. , you can find someone, but it’s likely that the person you find isn’t right.
As women, our nature desires the company and company of a man, comes from God and that’s why it’s good. But at the same time, we are wrong to think that death will be the result if that need is not met, needing someone else as a companion is not like needing to breathe, that is, you can survive without a partner at least until God has fulfilled his perfect work in you. Remember the scriptures: “God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
I discovered that there are two main reasons why anyone desperately needs to: desperately?First, it is because they do not know God as they should, is Not God the God of all comfort?Isn’t Christ exalted to the Lord who ends everything everywhere?So why do we complain about how empty and lonely we feel?It cannot be that God increases our celibacy time so that we can find life in him and learn to be complete in it if we seek to marry because we believe that a husband will satisfy our lives or make us complete in some way, we will be seriously disappointed with our marriage. No man, no matter how much he looks like Christ, could somehow take God a place in our lives, and to think such a thing is pure idolatry. If we are not satisfied with God now and complete in Christ in the present, then not even a marriage made in heaven will change our emptiness.
The second reason for someone’s desperate need in our lives is total selfishness. When we need someone to feel loved, or when we need someone to dispel our feelings of loneliness, we want marriage for the wrong reasons. Marriage should not be seen as an opportunity, to make our needs known, but to meet the needs of others. If we do not learn to bring our needs to God, then we will probably oppress our husbands with our own needs and we will not even be aware of their own. who have wasted their days with their own needs and who constantly regret why God did not bring someone into their lives, but why should God entrust a man of God to a woman who is engrossed in herself and in her own needs, and who does not use the freedom of her celibacy to serve God and prepare for her purposes?Such a woman would have little to offer a man of God!
My dear friend, being single and married must be considered a very special and pleasurable moment in God’s providence, this should not be seen as a mere circumstance or curse from which you must desperately try to escape. and ourselves, a time to discover who we are in Christ and how to grow in the “apparition of Christ”. It is time to be jealous of good works and participate in the ministry of others. Being single has its own magic that must be Nothing sadder than an already married woman who regrets not having done enough with her life being single, everything was lost trying to hurry to get married regardless of God’s plan or work.
Each stage of life has its own beauty and wonder. My prayer for all single Christians is that they can enjoy their time despite the lies of the world. May they be demanding and unfit for nothing less than God’s perfect will. Wait patiently, for God who is the provider of every good and perfect gift. Let them be like Aner, using as long as God deems necessary to beautify them inside and out.
By Paul and Charo Washer. Copyright © HeartCry Missionary Society INC. . All rights reserved. Original: Becoming Esther
Translation: Let’s go back to the gospel. Original: Charo and Paul Washer?God’s wife (becoming Aerr)
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