Embrace Your Purpose

"...God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: ... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he them." Genesis 1:26-27

"...The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul," Genesis 2:7

"...The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and the Lord took one of Adam's ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man, And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Genesis 2:21-23

"...The head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God..." I Corinthians 11:3

"For the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the man." I Corinthians 11:8-9

Paul in writing to Timothy exhorts men about prayer and giving of thanks. Paul also gives instruction to women. "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,...which becometh women professing godliness with good works. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, the Eve." I Timothy 2:1,8-14

God has given woman honor and respect in the scriptures and in His kingdom. Whether a woman is single, married to a nonbeliever, young, middle aged or elderly, she has a purpose and a task to accomplish in the body of Christ.

A woman married to a nonbeliever must never compromise her faith. "...if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation (conduct RC) of the wives;..." I Peter 3:1.

"The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God not be blasphemed." Titus 2:3-5

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9

Dear sisters in Christ, women of God, let us fulfill our purpose in God's kingdom.

--Rita Carter