The Value of a Woman

Magazine ads. Television commercials. Posters. Books. Store fronts. All boasting sensual, beautiful women. I am heartsick at the devalued role women play in our society today. I am so broken over the use of women's pictures and their physical beauty to sell products, entice eroticism, and gratify selfish sensual desires. Girlfriends, we were created for more than that!

We are created in the image of God himself. Genesis 1:27 says, "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." We were created to bring delight to our Father... "God saw all that he had made and it was very good." Genesis 1:31

God saw that Adam was alone in the world. For all the other creatures God had created companions, but Adam had no helper. Adam saw this too as he looked at and named all the other animals. (Genesis 2:19-25) God created woman from Adam's rib. She was taken from his side and placed at his side as an equal, a helper. Not a servant, not an inferior, not a tool for satisfaction. She was an 'ezer.' Ezer is the Biblical term for helpmeet, or helpmate.

Girls, we are valuable, cherished, and honored children of our heavenly Father. Let us seek to live as he created us. Let us have courage to speak up for those being abused and misled by the media.

Join me to pray for revival beginning in our homes, our communities, and our world. Pray for the reality of God's view of women to be reclaimed. Pray for Christian men to speak up in the protection of women and for their hearts to view women as God designed. Pray that marriages are renewed and rebuilt on God's foundational truth. Pray for courage to speak up for God's design for marriage.