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It's one of our favorite features each #podcast series, our Women of the Bible episode! This week we discuss several women who we feel embody these attributes of thinking we've been studying.
TRUE + HONEST
Sarah, wife to Abraham. She fell into the trap of believing lies and fact over Truth:
LIE: Sarah’s words in Genesis 16:2: “The Lord has prevented me from having children.”
FACT: God had not opened her womb to have children to this point.
TRUTH: God said to Abraham, “Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them. So will your descendants be.”
LIE: I’m an old, wrinkled and weathered woman who can not only bear children but has zero desire to even have sex with my old, withered husband.
FACT: I am physically past childbearing years. Medically impossible.
TRUTH: Spoken by God Himself in Genesis 18: “Is anything too difficult for the Lord?”
JUST + PURE:
Mary, mother of Jesus
She was pure physically, ethically, levitically
Just in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God; only Christ truly- approved of or acceptable of God
LOVELY + GOOD REPORT
Mary, mother of Jesus again!
“Yet from time to time God gave Mary LITTLE BITS OF OPEN HEAVEN, to strengthen her faith and keep her looking, ‘not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.’" (Mary Elizabeth Baxter)
“Mary pondered frequently. This wasn’t tucking something away in the dark recesses of her heart, but rather a holding of them closely so that she could feel and touch and smell them.” (Graceful Abandon)
“This (treasuring, pondering) is a beautiful way to grow in the Lord. Let Him bring new, possibly scary, potentially overwhelming things your way and respond with thoughtful contemplation instead of riotous emotion.” (Graceful Abandon)
VIRTUE + PRAISE:
Ruth, daughter-in-law to Naomi
For someone to have virtue means that they have the ability to withstand opposition, to make wise decisions in difficult situations, and to claim what is rightfully theirs even when everything around them is in disagreement.
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