"Man I feel like a Woman"

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 A wimpy woman tries to be like a man. A strong woman appreciates men and womens’ roles and strives to live out of her God-given femininity.

Do you know the story of ESTHER? 

Esther was intelligent and beautiful woman who was personally chosen by the King to be his wife, the Queen. Esther 2:17 says ““The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found favor and kindness with him”. Esther was also Jewish and her people, the Israelites were refusing to pay Homage to an evil man named Haman, who also happend to be the king’s high official. Haman want to murder all the Jews because they won’t worship him. So Mordechi, Esther’s  cousin, tells her about this and pleads with her to try to persuade the king to step in. In Esther 4:14, her cousin says “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?” (4:14). Chapters 5-10, Esther outwits Haman and takes her petition to the king and pleas for the protection of her Jewish people from Haman. The King, out of respect for Esther, has Haman hung and Esther’s faith and courage saves her people.

If Esther had tried to play it like a man, I guarantee the king would not have been won over. But instead of doing it a man’s way, she led and lived out of her God given design for the benefit of her people in a feminine strength.

Ladies, I like to think of God calling us to be on his team. On this team he gives men one role and woman another and himself a different role.  Her role is not less than, it is just different. A weak woman gets ready to be on this team but then decides, oh man, I don’t want to play that position, I want to play Tylers position or Shawn’s positon or that guy over there’s position.  As a matter of fact, I actually want to play God’s position too. 

So instead of being a team player, the wimpy woman says, "I don’t need any players and I don’t need God. I’m going to be the whole team...Coach, pitcher, catcher, 2nd baseman, etc.  And I’m going to play all by myself. But you know what happens? Nothing! She minus well sit in the dugout cause life doesn’t work without all the players.  

Society needs women who will be women and believe that her contribution to the kingdom is equal to a man’s and her role is vital as an heir to the inheritance found in Christ.

Galatians 3:26-29 says:

26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

The team doesn’t benefit when we don’t play our role and neither do we. Going it alone is not how God created us!  God has called you to a position no one else can play. To a role a man can not do. Will you, like Esther use your design as a woman for such a time as this? Will you use your courage, your beauty, your strength, your wisdom like Esther to better the world around you? Your role is vital in the kingdom! And you are the same heirs according to the promise as men. But we need to act out of our design, not theirs. 

A wimpy woman refuses to play her role. Where a woman of strength seeks to be feminine and live out of her Godly design in all she does.

This Blog inspired by Shania Twain and her 90's country hit  Man, I feel like a Woman.