Daughters of God

It is so hard to wrap your head around being a daughter of God. I mean wrap your head around the full revelation of what that means. I know I have not come close to the depth of it. I long for the Lord to reveal that to me. But I do know that once you start to sit in this truth. Meditate on it. Talk to the Lord about it, it very well may become the most significant revelation of your life, next to who Jesus is of course.

You are a daughter of God. Let me say that again, you are a daughter of God! If you are a daughter, then that means you are loved dearly, you are always welcome, you are provided for, you are wanted. Ladies, we gotta begin to wrap our heads around this.

In our culture, really in the entire world, but I will focus on America, women are lied to on such a massive scale it makes my head spin. The enemy has created a false freedom called feminism that looks pretty, but is simply bondage disguised as equality. This so called equality has seeped it’s way in to everything. It is such a significant part of our culture that separating it from the truth can be very challenging. The level of deception is so significant, it can seem impossible to reach women with the truth of who we are, but of course with God all things are possible! 

I used to be heavily deceived by this. Not surprisingly, this came about during my time in college. I was pursuing a master’s degree and just about to say yes to being accepting in to the program, when God threw a huge curve ball my way and I accepted a job instead. At the time I did not understand it. But now I know it was God pulling me out of that culture, starting the process of removing the lies and filling me with who He says I am, not culture.

In order to walk in the fullness of what God has planned for us, we have to walk through the process of renewing our minds on who women are. We must take the time to meditate on scripture, really let it soak in, we must sit with Jesus and talk with Him about this. I am determined that if women would start to understand who we are in God, as His daughters, our culture would start to come together. It would stop falling apart day after day to unrighteousness, sin and complete deception, and start to return to its former glory. 

So you might say, what you are saying sounds like feminism. RIse up, women! Come on, you are just as great as men if not greater. Yeah, yeah, but the root of who we are must be in God. We must know why we were created in the first place, stop believing the lie of what submission is, and start walking in the authority we have as daughters of God. You see, the fundamental root of feminism is that we are all equal, women can do whatever men can. But God created us differently for a reason. And our culture has turned its back on those reasons, and how would you say we are doing these days as a whole? I think we all can agree on the fact that we have never been worse off. Which in itself proves the worthy work of women, right?

So, the question is, what does being a daughter of God mean? What does that look like in everyday life? The specifics of this answer are different for everyone. I think most women naturally think of working outside the home vs staying home first. I do not think this is a black and white issue. I mean, read Proverbs 31, she clearly took after her family and provided also! So this varies family by family. However, I do think for women our family should come first. So if our work takes up all of our mental and physical energy and leaves our family wanting, then I think that should be prayed about. Is this a season that you simply have to do what you have to do? Are you being selfish and prioritizing your job over your family? Are you listening to the lies of culture and believing your job is more important? Do you think you ‘could never stay home”? Spend time in prayer about it and ask the Lord for guidance on this. 

Secondly, we must come to understand the importance of our families! It is becoming clearer to the masses that family is important, focusing on raising our kids does have an impact on their overall well being, and that someone has to do this. I cannot count anymore how many times the lack seen in young adults has come up in conversations the past couple years. It is no secret that a generation was largely raised by school and tv and now our culture sees the implications of this. And that it does not work. However, we still have a significant gap for us realizing this as a culture, and women rising to the challenge and taking responsibility. If we can largely now recognize the importance of this, why can we still not recognize the value and importance of the work of moms and women? Is it because we are scared to go against the grain? (Really not against anymore, the tide is shifting!) What I hear most often is, “I could never stay home, I have to get a break from my kids!”. Oh my word, this is deception on its greatest level but we wrap it up in half truths and paint it truth and carry on in life. Never understanding the implications this lie has on our family.

Ladies, you were created to care for your family. God gave women the mind blowing abilities it takes to keep a family going. It goes so much deeper than making the 5th pb & j of your day and cleaning the toilet again because your son cannot aim and refuses to sit (not my life at all ;) ) What women do at home is of prime importance! It makes for a fully functioning society, which would be nice right about now, right?!, and it allows us to teach our kids. Can we please stop believing the lie that we could never stay home and be with our kids? Let me say something that will cut deep, your kids hear you say that you could never stay home with them, and how does that make your kids feel? If we do not want to be with our kids, then who does? And kids hearing this day in and day out, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it has negative implications on how they see themselves, how they see family, how they view the world.

Ladies, I say this a lot but we need to grasp it, God created YOU to be the mom of YOUR KIDS. That means when God created your kid as a touchy feely person and gifted that kid to you, who does not like being touched (not my life at all :) )He saw beauty in that! He saw love in that! He saw growth and maturity in that! He did not plan for us to dine and dash and pay someone else to raise our kids. He would never do that. So, yes you can stay home and be with your kids. Trust me when I say it is not my personality to do what I do everyday :) But I know how God designed my family and even though my days are so much more challenging than they were before kids, I see God’s beauty working in my life and in my family. Nothing worthwhile is easy, right? Yes, staying home is hard. But I would not trade a moment. Time with them is priceless, and we will never get it back, once its gone its gone. Ok, I rest my case.

So ladies, let’s begin the process of renewing our minds in who God says we are. Let’s begin the process of shedding deception, and walking in who God made us. Let’s start to look at family the way God designed it to be. Let’s pursue the Lord with everything asking how He sees us, why He created us the way He did, why He planned our family the way He did, and what He desires for us and our family. We all need to hear God’s unique guidance for our families ourselves. This can only come with spending time with the Lord, so get to it! Sit with Him, worship Him, ask Him the specific questions you have about your family and situation. And don’t give up, He will answer, in His time.