Thursday, January 13, 2011

Gender Issues

So we've spent a few days talking about the different roles and characteristics of men and women. One great takeaway I can share without a string of ideas and paragraphs follows:

If you ask me if I have ever called another guy a 'girl' for not wanting to take a risk or for doing something I thought unbecoming of a guy, then you would soon find out I have done this many a time. In essence, what I am doing in this act is saying a guy not portraying characteristics of a Godly man is a woman. Or he was acting like one.

Well, I was hit with a great truth this weak. A man abdicating responsibility, living in fear, living without confidence in God does not make him a single bit more like a woman. What it makes him is simple less a man. Because every time I think of weakness in regards to a man as something feminine, I demean the image God made women for.

My view of a woman of God has been profoundly influenced by what I've seen in the world. Contrary to what I've seen and many times believe, we spoke of how a woman isn't the princess in the fire swamp, waiting for a man to save her. Rather, she is a courageous woman who fears God and in whom a man can actually trust. The woman described in Proverbs 31 doesn't sound like a woman who is unable.