COS ~ Enoch Cell

Monday, March 15, 2010

*.* Do not ask me to be a man, for I am not. I am a woman. *.*

Do not ask me to be a man, for I am not. I am a woman.
(And this is not a demeaning statement.)

For the women of God, and the men too.

We live in a world where the women, sometimes, try so hard to be like a man. It seems like women around the world are working so hard to prove the fact that, 'I can do what a man can do too.' And it seems to be from some form of hatred and hurt that spurs the women of recent times to work harder and harder to prove themselves (remember the feminist movement). There has been, for the longest time, a struggle for gender equality. Women all over the world feel the need to prove themselves constantly.

But why?

We don't need to. Simply because the fact that we are not men. From the very beginning, God has structured us, in our mothers' wombs, very very carefully and fearfully. He has said, 'This child is going to be a woman.' We have been chosen and called to be women, women of God and women for God.

Our femininity, our bodies, our minds and our beings -a woman.

Do we not know our place, that we should fight for one that does not belong to us, that God did not give us?

What am I really saying? Am I saying that women cannot be researchers, we cannot fly planes, we cannot be CFOs, we cannot be directors, we cannot be professors, we cannot be lawyers and doctors, we cannot be evangelists, writers, pastors...etc? Am I saying that we should only be housewives and we should only stay at home?

Definitely not.

But what I am saying, really, is that we don't need to compete with men in the things they do (fly, teach, research, doctor, preach etc) in being a man.
Let me say it again: We do what men do too, but not like men, but like women.

There is a form of distortion to feminism, that we prove our ability to do all the things that men do. Men have never sought to prove that they can do all the things women do. (They don't quite bother to too!) And so why subject women to purely masculine criteria? We ought to be judged (if we ought to be) by the criteria of femininity, for it is femininity that we participate in the human race. And femininity has its limitations, likewise to masculinity.

This is what I am saying: To be a woman is not to be a man.

Therefore, do not fight like a man. Because we are not. But fight like a woman. Run the race being a woman. And do not be ashamed about it. For no greater calling is there for us, than that to be a woman of God and a woman for God.

Know the position and authority you have as a woman of God, and be that woman.

If you're a man and you're wondering why reading this, firstly, it is good to know. Hahaha. But more importantly, that we are all running this race of endurance together. What better thing is there than to understand each other, so we can better encourage, support, spur and lead each other to run towards our prize.

For the husbands, and husbands to be, love your women as a woman. Love them, for they are God's gift to you.
And God has given man a woman so that he will not be alone (note: a woman, not many women).

---Truly blessed by the book 'Let Me Be A Woman' by Elizabeth Elliot.

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Love,
Felily :)

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