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CHAPTER 8
WE ARE CHIRST’S AMBASSADORS!
We are living in a time of great change in America. There has been a steady decline in our
culture and in our biblical doctrines. Christian psychology has entered the Church of Jesus
Christ and done much damage to the attitudes of Christian women. Our culture has
changed so dramatically since the 1940’s that you wouldn’t even know it was the same
culture and people. Both men and women have been affected by these changes.
Courtesy, politeness and tact have seemed to have gone out the window. Where is chivalry
today? Where is true bravery, honor, integrity, truthfulness to our own hurt? All of these
virtues are rarely seen or experienced anymore. And where are the “ladies” today? Where
are the women with dignity, softness, women who are chase and above reproach and
honorable in every respect? Today our women in America are brash, curse, push for their
own way, are disrespectful to their husbands, yell, scream, throw temper tantrums, withhold
sexual favor from their husbands if they don’t get their own way, put their husband’s down
and have lost much of the feminity that made them attractive. We have been so
brainwashed in America as to what a “woman” is to be and what her role in life really is
from a biblical point of view. We Christian women must get back to the Scriptures and
search out what we are to be like and how we are to act, if we are to please our Lord and
our Heavenly Father. We must NOT be dragged into this modern day, worldly way of
thinking, or else we will be turned away from the Word of God. The Christian woman of
today must rise above this world’s way of thinking, and instead become an example for the
world, to raise their standards to hers.
The Bible says that in the last days people will become worse and worse and that God will
turn them over to a “reprobate mind” because they did not love the truth. Today we see the
spirit of rudeness, resentment, bitterness and “I’ll get you before you can get me” attitudes
everywhere. When you go shopping in the stores you can hardly find anyone to wait on you
anymore, and when you do find an employee and ask them for help, they usually have an
attitude of being imposed upon by having to wait on you. Gas station attendants are often
the same way. They look so perturbed that you drove up and now they have to get up off
their chair and come out to pump some gas for your car.
Satan is running rampant today and the people of planet earth have bought into the
program. Today the world is screaming the message through the media, television, movies,
and even in some churches, that women are superior to men. Women have bought into this
lie and treat men like they were created for them. Some women expect men to buy this or
that for her, purchase a certain kind of house, lay his coat in the puddle so that she doesn’t
get her feet wet when she crosses the muddy road, and to kiss her hand. She develops a
“cocky” attitude and a self-righteousness that must be dealt with one way or another. The
TV is no help as a role model for us either, as these shows continually portray these
attitudes of women towards men, and the commercials are just as bad. These shows,
movies and commercials teach women to manipulate men and make men out to be klutzes,
stupid or incapable.
Where is the attitude of serving him (our husband) and Him (the Lord)? Both! Where has
the meek and quiet spirit that is of great price to the Lord gone? Where is the spirit of
humility and the spirit of gentleness in women today? These are very important to the Lord
according to the Word, and these attributes are the very ones that God created women to
have which make them beautiful, desirable and attractive. Women have become hardened,
self sufficient, not needing their husbands to provide, take care of or protect them. Today
they have an attitude more like “you’d better toe the line mister or else!”
Today, so many children are going astray because they do not see God’s order in the
home. They see fighting, chaos, parents insulting one another, the male being put down all
the time, the woman in control of finances, all the major decisions, the children AND the
husband as well. Children are hurt permanently by the confusion of identities in our mixed
up culture. Today we have woman’s liberation, free spirited women with equal rights on
every hand. Many homes are torn apart because of these attitudes and we are living in a
declining nation because we have gone away from the principles in the Word of God.
Are these women really happy? No! They can’t exist without God’s order. Many pretend
to be happy, but it is not real. In my first marriage, I had a very passive husband, who was
the sweetest, most gentle, kind and amenable man that I have every known. We never had
one fight, and I was married to Michael for 9 years and 9 months before he died. But this
also worked against him too, because I ran the show. If I wanted anything, or wanted to do
anything he would go along with me on anything I desired. I found that I did not respect
him, even though he was wonderful, because he never went against anything I ever wanted
to do.
I grew up going to the movies 3 times a week with my mother, and usually a double
feature. I was programmed by the movies in my way of thinking as a young impressionable
child. I thought that women were to be feisty, provocative, sexy, cute, stand up to men, and
everything else that the media brainwashed women into thinking. I was a little Ginger
Rogers, a little Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day and a little bit of each of the
stars that I saw on the silver screen and was so enamored by. Then I got saved and had to
re-learn and undo all that I had learned from childhood. I had to read the Scriptures and try
to figure out what God intended a woman to be. What was His design for her? How could
I become that type of woman, and what attitudes did she have that I didn’t. This took lots
of “going around the mountain” type experiences before I could get some things right; years
in fact. I had to establish new ways of thinking and seeing my role in life, but God’s grace is
sufficient. It may take time but we must begin somewhere. My motives had been all
wrong. I thought that the world and my life were all about me, to please me and to make
me happy. These are the same motives that the world preaches today, all for self!
The Word of God is considered “old fashioned” when it says things like Ephesians 5:22-24
which says, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the
saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to
their own husbands in every thing.” Wow! What a difference from today’s cultural attitude.
Here we have a direct command for us Christian women to do, and how many women in
Christian households do this? What does the word submit mean? It means “fit in with your
husband’s plans”, or “I could do it another way but I won’t.” Also it means obey him. Oh
how we hate that word today in the 21st century, it sounds almost prehistoric doesn’t it.
Yet we are told to obey our husbands in everything, unless they tell us to do something that
is unscriptural, and then we must obey God’s Word.
Sarah obeyed Abraham, even when Abraham passed her off as his sister, as she was his
half-sister, but he was afraid of being killed if he told the king that she was his wife. He was
trying to spare his own life and was willing to risk having the king take Sarah into the king’s
harem. Not only did Abraham do this once, but twice. How would we feel if our husband’s
did this to us? Sarah had to put her trust in the Lord, and not in man, to take care of her.
God did intervene on her behalf, and sent the king a dream of warning which spared her
from having to become the king’s wife.
Men will make mistakes because they are all human, but God will give us women the
grace and the ability to maintain respect for them, still love them and help them through their
situations when they do make a mistake. It is hard being in leadership and no leader has
ever done it perfectly, because they are mere mortals. And so it is with our dear husbands
too, they are but mere mortals. We should be thankful that we don’t have their
responsibility to be the head of the family. We would probably make a mess of things for
sure. That’s why it’s so important that we appreciate them, admire them, build them up with
our actions and our words and show them our highest respect and love. If we do this from
a sincere heart, this will melt their hearts faster than any other type of attitude I assure you,
and will please our heavenly Father as well, because we are doing things right.
When we fit in with our husband’s plans, there is not a lot of time left. The Bible tells us
that we are to be a helpmate to our husbands, that woman was created FOR the man, that
the woman is OF the man, and a woman is to be his crowning glory. Today the world has
reversed this idea. Like in the animal kingdom, it is the male lion that has the beautiful
mane; it is the male peacock that has the beautiful plumage. This way of thinking is so
contrary to the way women are taught to think today. The attitude that prevails today is
very liberal and very unbiblical, the woman wanting her equality, her own rights and her
freedoms. No way do women today think that they need to submit to their husband in
EVERYTHING and obey him. Nor do they believe that they were created for HIM but that
the man was created for her. God’s plan for women has been so distorted and perverted
by the world. The consequence of this modern day thinking has wrecked homes, caused
women to look at motherhood as a chore instead of a privilege and has damaged the
concept of femininity. Today it seems that much of American culture has become
functionally bi-sexual. It is politically correct in fact and even applauded, when a man
assumes the natural role of a woman, and the woman assumes the natural role of the man.
A man is highly thought of by much of our culture when he stays at home and takes care of
the children (especially if they are babies or preschoolers). It is also thought to be
commendable if the woman abandons her role as nurturer and caretaker of very small
children, and works outside the home while her husband is a stay at home mom.
The Bible, however, instructs women to be the “keeper of the home” and the man is to be
the provider for the family. Titus 2:4-6 tells women how they are to act and what they are
to do, (Older women are to) “…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 be not blasphemed.” The Proverbs 31 woman who bought
land, sold goods at the market place and was involved in working outside the home is an
example of a woman whose children were probably grown and do not need her to be at
home any longer. It is the formative years where children so desperately need their
mothers to be at home, so that the mother is able to be the main influence in the child’s life,
and not someone else raising the child. This means that women with small children must
(except extraordinary circumstances exist) choose to have less material comforts so that
she can have more godly and secure children. By honoring God and His Word in such a
way, her life will indeed be richer in love and God will then have much more freedom in
blessing her husband, herself and especially her children. Children do not need to live in
any kind of home that would cost them the opportunity to be nurtured by their mother and
provided for by their father. They can even live in a rented house. They need a nurturing
mother and a father who provides for their needs. Without the parents functioning in their
God given roles, they will be spiritually weaker and much less secure. Oftentimes mothers,
rent a caregiver or part-time mother, so that the mother can either supplant her husband as
main provider of the home, or she and her husband can live in greater luxury. The man must
not work two jobs either. He must not only provide materially for his family, but he must be
there to love them, to lead them and to pray for them. This notion of living on little money
and small luxuries is completely foreign to most Christians, who strongly believe that it is
important for them to have all the things and opportunities that their worldly neighbors and
shallow Christian associates have. Unfortunately, many Christians have no idea how to live
within their means, and must be taught to deny themselves all the little and sometimes the
big luxuries or even so-called necessities that others have. They must do this for the great
good of raising their children for the Lord.
Christians must learn to seek God’s Word to find out how God wants a man and a woman
to function, so that they can experience the happiest and most productive lives possible,
with God as the center. When the home is in order according to the Word of God, then
each member of the household will have the greatest opportunity for happiness. It is
important that each one do what God has created them to do, and it is much more
important to please God than our flesh.
It must be understood that these words are almost impossible for one who is not born-again
from above to receive. Only new creatures in Christ will have ears to hear these words and
if they rebel against these words, they will suffer GREAT loss in this life.
God tells women in 1 Peter 3:3-5, “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of
plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden
man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the
holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their
own husbands.” See right here the Word links our attitude of having a meek and quiet spirit,
our trust in God and our subjection to our husbands of great importance, if we women are
to follow the Word of God for our lives. How can we get around this one? Our life is like a
flower that fades away ever so quickly, like a vapor. But character and inner beauty lasts
forever and becomes more beautiful as we age. Older godly women seem to have a glow
about them. We don’t want to get all hung up on the outward, on fashion, hair, face lifts,
and spend our time and energy on that which will soon fade away. Not that these don’t
have their place in our lives, but they are not the essentials to living a godly life to please our
Father and our Savior.
We can all have inner beauty and inner character, with a meek and quiet spirit, becoming
pleasing to our blessed Lord and Savior. These virtues are developed through first realizing
that this is what we are to be like, and then practicing these virtues, praying about our
character, repenting of wrongful attitudes and asking for forgiveness, so that we can
become women of God.
In the above Scripture women are given directives in the Word of God. Two of these are
to develop beauty with a meek and quiet spirit, and submission to our husbands. We must
daily remember that these are to be our attitudes so that we can have a clear conscious
before both God and man. When we practice these attitudes in our homes, there will be
order in our homes. Our children will be changed as we are changed, and our husbands will
be happier. Many a woman has wept bitter tears over lawless (disobedient) children who
began by imitating her own example as a wife.
We want to set an example for those who watch our lives, the unsaved in particular. We do
not want them to think we are “just like they are.” We want them to see a difference in us
as we talked about in our previous chapter. We are God’s representatives or God’s
ambassadors here on this earth. As we glorify God, we put a hunger into their hearts
because they see how happy and protected by God we are.
Ok, now here is the question. Do we really want to become women of God, and become
all that He created us to be? If so, we must deal with our attitudes, because in a great
sense, we ARE our attitudes. The wrong attitudes in us must be weeded out so that NEW
SEED of right attitudes can grow in us instead. It sometimes takes a Rota tiller to stir up
the hardened ground, get rid of the dried grass and start afresh. We have so much that we
have to unlearn. Understand this; we will get flack from family and friends who do not know
the Word. These principles are for Christians to follow not for the unbelievers. We need to
repent (turn around and go a different direction) if we find ourselves thinking in the old ways,
contrary to the Word of God. Now we will look at what our attitudes should be.
WE ARE CHIRST’S AMBASSADORS!
We are living in a time of great change in America. There has been a steady decline in our
culture and in our biblical doctrines. Christian psychology has entered the Church of Jesus
Christ and done much damage to the attitudes of Christian women. Our culture has
changed so dramatically since the 1940’s that you wouldn’t even know it was the same
culture and people. Both men and women have been affected by these changes.
Courtesy, politeness and tact have seemed to have gone out the window. Where is chivalry
today? Where is true bravery, honor, integrity, truthfulness to our own hurt? All of these
virtues are rarely seen or experienced anymore. And where are the “ladies” today? Where
are the women with dignity, softness, women who are chase and above reproach and
honorable in every respect? Today our women in America are brash, curse, push for their
own way, are disrespectful to their husbands, yell, scream, throw temper tantrums, withhold
sexual favor from their husbands if they don’t get their own way, put their husband’s down
and have lost much of the feminity that made them attractive. We have been so
brainwashed in America as to what a “woman” is to be and what her role in life really is
from a biblical point of view. We Christian women must get back to the Scriptures and
search out what we are to be like and how we are to act, if we are to please our Lord and
our Heavenly Father. We must NOT be dragged into this modern day, worldly way of
thinking, or else we will be turned away from the Word of God. The Christian woman of
today must rise above this world’s way of thinking, and instead become an example for the
world, to raise their standards to hers.
The Bible says that in the last days people will become worse and worse and that God will
turn them over to a “reprobate mind” because they did not love the truth. Today we see the
spirit of rudeness, resentment, bitterness and “I’ll get you before you can get me” attitudes
everywhere. When you go shopping in the stores you can hardly find anyone to wait on you
anymore, and when you do find an employee and ask them for help, they usually have an
attitude of being imposed upon by having to wait on you. Gas station attendants are often
the same way. They look so perturbed that you drove up and now they have to get up off
their chair and come out to pump some gas for your car.
Satan is running rampant today and the people of planet earth have bought into the
program. Today the world is screaming the message through the media, television, movies,
and even in some churches, that women are superior to men. Women have bought into this
lie and treat men like they were created for them. Some women expect men to buy this or
that for her, purchase a certain kind of house, lay his coat in the puddle so that she doesn’t
get her feet wet when she crosses the muddy road, and to kiss her hand. She develops a
“cocky” attitude and a self-righteousness that must be dealt with one way or another. The
TV is no help as a role model for us either, as these shows continually portray these
attitudes of women towards men, and the commercials are just as bad. These shows,
movies and commercials teach women to manipulate men and make men out to be klutzes,
stupid or incapable.
Where is the attitude of serving him (our husband) and Him (the Lord)? Both! Where has
the meek and quiet spirit that is of great price to the Lord gone? Where is the spirit of
humility and the spirit of gentleness in women today? These are very important to the Lord
according to the Word, and these attributes are the very ones that God created women to
have which make them beautiful, desirable and attractive. Women have become hardened,
self sufficient, not needing their husbands to provide, take care of or protect them. Today
they have an attitude more like “you’d better toe the line mister or else!”
Today, so many children are going astray because they do not see God’s order in the
home. They see fighting, chaos, parents insulting one another, the male being put down all
the time, the woman in control of finances, all the major decisions, the children AND the
husband as well. Children are hurt permanently by the confusion of identities in our mixed
up culture. Today we have woman’s liberation, free spirited women with equal rights on
every hand. Many homes are torn apart because of these attitudes and we are living in a
declining nation because we have gone away from the principles in the Word of God.
Are these women really happy? No! They can’t exist without God’s order. Many pretend
to be happy, but it is not real. In my first marriage, I had a very passive husband, who was
the sweetest, most gentle, kind and amenable man that I have every known. We never had
one fight, and I was married to Michael for 9 years and 9 months before he died. But this
also worked against him too, because I ran the show. If I wanted anything, or wanted to do
anything he would go along with me on anything I desired. I found that I did not respect
him, even though he was wonderful, because he never went against anything I ever wanted
to do.
I grew up going to the movies 3 times a week with my mother, and usually a double
feature. I was programmed by the movies in my way of thinking as a young impressionable
child. I thought that women were to be feisty, provocative, sexy, cute, stand up to men, and
everything else that the media brainwashed women into thinking. I was a little Ginger
Rogers, a little Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day and a little bit of each of the
stars that I saw on the silver screen and was so enamored by. Then I got saved and had to
re-learn and undo all that I had learned from childhood. I had to read the Scriptures and try
to figure out what God intended a woman to be. What was His design for her? How could
I become that type of woman, and what attitudes did she have that I didn’t. This took lots
of “going around the mountain” type experiences before I could get some things right; years
in fact. I had to establish new ways of thinking and seeing my role in life, but God’s grace is
sufficient. It may take time but we must begin somewhere. My motives had been all
wrong. I thought that the world and my life were all about me, to please me and to make
me happy. These are the same motives that the world preaches today, all for self!
The Word of God is considered “old fashioned” when it says things like Ephesians 5:22-24
which says, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the
saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to
their own husbands in every thing.” Wow! What a difference from today’s cultural attitude.
Here we have a direct command for us Christian women to do, and how many women in
Christian households do this? What does the word submit mean? It means “fit in with your
husband’s plans”, or “I could do it another way but I won’t.” Also it means obey him. Oh
how we hate that word today in the 21st century, it sounds almost prehistoric doesn’t it.
Yet we are told to obey our husbands in everything, unless they tell us to do something that
is unscriptural, and then we must obey God’s Word.
Sarah obeyed Abraham, even when Abraham passed her off as his sister, as she was his
half-sister, but he was afraid of being killed if he told the king that she was his wife. He was
trying to spare his own life and was willing to risk having the king take Sarah into the king’s
harem. Not only did Abraham do this once, but twice. How would we feel if our husband’s
did this to us? Sarah had to put her trust in the Lord, and not in man, to take care of her.
God did intervene on her behalf, and sent the king a dream of warning which spared her
from having to become the king’s wife.
Men will make mistakes because they are all human, but God will give us women the
grace and the ability to maintain respect for them, still love them and help them through their
situations when they do make a mistake. It is hard being in leadership and no leader has
ever done it perfectly, because they are mere mortals. And so it is with our dear husbands
too, they are but mere mortals. We should be thankful that we don’t have their
responsibility to be the head of the family. We would probably make a mess of things for
sure. That’s why it’s so important that we appreciate them, admire them, build them up with
our actions and our words and show them our highest respect and love. If we do this from
a sincere heart, this will melt their hearts faster than any other type of attitude I assure you,
and will please our heavenly Father as well, because we are doing things right.
When we fit in with our husband’s plans, there is not a lot of time left. The Bible tells us
that we are to be a helpmate to our husbands, that woman was created FOR the man, that
the woman is OF the man, and a woman is to be his crowning glory. Today the world has
reversed this idea. Like in the animal kingdom, it is the male lion that has the beautiful
mane; it is the male peacock that has the beautiful plumage. This way of thinking is so
contrary to the way women are taught to think today. The attitude that prevails today is
very liberal and very unbiblical, the woman wanting her equality, her own rights and her
freedoms. No way do women today think that they need to submit to their husband in
EVERYTHING and obey him. Nor do they believe that they were created for HIM but that
the man was created for her. God’s plan for women has been so distorted and perverted
by the world. The consequence of this modern day thinking has wrecked homes, caused
women to look at motherhood as a chore instead of a privilege and has damaged the
concept of femininity. Today it seems that much of American culture has become
functionally bi-sexual. It is politically correct in fact and even applauded, when a man
assumes the natural role of a woman, and the woman assumes the natural role of the man.
A man is highly thought of by much of our culture when he stays at home and takes care of
the children (especially if they are babies or preschoolers). It is also thought to be
commendable if the woman abandons her role as nurturer and caretaker of very small
children, and works outside the home while her husband is a stay at home mom.
The Bible, however, instructs women to be the “keeper of the home” and the man is to be
the provider for the family. Titus 2:4-6 tells women how they are to act and what they are
to do, (Older women are to) “…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 be not blasphemed.” The Proverbs 31 woman who bought
land, sold goods at the market place and was involved in working outside the home is an
example of a woman whose children were probably grown and do not need her to be at
home any longer. It is the formative years where children so desperately need their
mothers to be at home, so that the mother is able to be the main influence in the child’s life,
and not someone else raising the child. This means that women with small children must
(except extraordinary circumstances exist) choose to have less material comforts so that
she can have more godly and secure children. By honoring God and His Word in such a
way, her life will indeed be richer in love and God will then have much more freedom in
blessing her husband, herself and especially her children. Children do not need to live in
any kind of home that would cost them the opportunity to be nurtured by their mother and
provided for by their father. They can even live in a rented house. They need a nurturing
mother and a father who provides for their needs. Without the parents functioning in their
God given roles, they will be spiritually weaker and much less secure. Oftentimes mothers,
rent a caregiver or part-time mother, so that the mother can either supplant her husband as
main provider of the home, or she and her husband can live in greater luxury. The man must
not work two jobs either. He must not only provide materially for his family, but he must be
there to love them, to lead them and to pray for them. This notion of living on little money
and small luxuries is completely foreign to most Christians, who strongly believe that it is
important for them to have all the things and opportunities that their worldly neighbors and
shallow Christian associates have. Unfortunately, many Christians have no idea how to live
within their means, and must be taught to deny themselves all the little and sometimes the
big luxuries or even so-called necessities that others have. They must do this for the great
good of raising their children for the Lord.
Christians must learn to seek God’s Word to find out how God wants a man and a woman
to function, so that they can experience the happiest and most productive lives possible,
with God as the center. When the home is in order according to the Word of God, then
each member of the household will have the greatest opportunity for happiness. It is
important that each one do what God has created them to do, and it is much more
important to please God than our flesh.
It must be understood that these words are almost impossible for one who is not born-again
from above to receive. Only new creatures in Christ will have ears to hear these words and
if they rebel against these words, they will suffer GREAT loss in this life.
God tells women in 1 Peter 3:3-5, “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of
plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden
man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the
holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their
own husbands.” See right here the Word links our attitude of having a meek and quiet spirit,
our trust in God and our subjection to our husbands of great importance, if we women are
to follow the Word of God for our lives. How can we get around this one? Our life is like a
flower that fades away ever so quickly, like a vapor. But character and inner beauty lasts
forever and becomes more beautiful as we age. Older godly women seem to have a glow
about them. We don’t want to get all hung up on the outward, on fashion, hair, face lifts,
and spend our time and energy on that which will soon fade away. Not that these don’t
have their place in our lives, but they are not the essentials to living a godly life to please our
Father and our Savior.
We can all have inner beauty and inner character, with a meek and quiet spirit, becoming
pleasing to our blessed Lord and Savior. These virtues are developed through first realizing
that this is what we are to be like, and then practicing these virtues, praying about our
character, repenting of wrongful attitudes and asking for forgiveness, so that we can
become women of God.
In the above Scripture women are given directives in the Word of God. Two of these are
to develop beauty with a meek and quiet spirit, and submission to our husbands. We must
daily remember that these are to be our attitudes so that we can have a clear conscious
before both God and man. When we practice these attitudes in our homes, there will be
order in our homes. Our children will be changed as we are changed, and our husbands will
be happier. Many a woman has wept bitter tears over lawless (disobedient) children who
began by imitating her own example as a wife.
We want to set an example for those who watch our lives, the unsaved in particular. We do
not want them to think we are “just like they are.” We want them to see a difference in us
as we talked about in our previous chapter. We are God’s representatives or God’s
ambassadors here on this earth. As we glorify God, we put a hunger into their hearts
because they see how happy and protected by God we are.
Ok, now here is the question. Do we really want to become women of God, and become
all that He created us to be? If so, we must deal with our attitudes, because in a great
sense, we ARE our attitudes. The wrong attitudes in us must be weeded out so that NEW
SEED of right attitudes can grow in us instead. It sometimes takes a Rota tiller to stir up
the hardened ground, get rid of the dried grass and start afresh. We have so much that we
have to unlearn. Understand this; we will get flack from family and friends who do not know
the Word. These principles are for Christians to follow not for the unbelievers. We need to
repent (turn around and go a different direction) if we find ourselves thinking in the old ways,
contrary to the Word of God. Now we will look at what our attitudes should be.
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