What does Biblical Womanhood Look Like?
Consider the word virtuous
- It involves cultivating strength
- Virtuous is Strong in purity, chastity, and righteousness
- Modern dictionaries get it all wrong
- One strives to be virtuous to appear to be better than others
- Bible- it doesn’t make you better but priceless
- Dictionaries:
- Collins - to do what is expected and feeling pleased with themselves, perhaps too pleased
- Cambridge - Thinks oneself morally better than others, only does good so he can feel virtuous
- Oxford - behaving in a very good or moral way, irreproachable, claiming to behave better or have a higher moral standard than others.
- Modern philosophies get it wrong:
- A strong woman follows her heart
- The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked
- She shows her authentic self
- In my flesh dwells no good thing
- She cultivates her own interests
- Be kindly affectioned one to another . . . in honor preferring
- She is self-aware and continually growing into herself
- For me to live is Christ and to die is gain
- She stands up for herself and and is not afraid to share her thoughts and ideas regardless of what others think
- She speaks her heart and mind
- Whoso keeps his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from trouble Proverbs 21:23
- Same word for going into battle
- Root is to twist, writhe, twirl, dance
- The Virtuous woman is strong
- She is prepared for battle
- She cha-cha-chas her way through her busy days
- Cf. Ephesians 6
- She is strong 6:10
- She is ready for battle 6:11
- She is prepared for whatever comes her way 6:13
It involves cultivating a strong relationship with God v. 30
- A woman who fears the Lord
- Can’t get enough of God
- Is in awe of God
- Will be praised