Power of a Woman

Over the past week or two I've thought back to when I read two books: Paradise Lost and Wild at Heart. Both of them made an impression, but where the two of them link is in the explanation of our core reactions regardless of our own work against nature. The one I'd like to focus on in this post is the nature of a woman. I won't be going in depth, but rather I'd like to touch on a specific part of that nature. A responsibility.

In Paradise Lost you read how Lucifer rebels against God. "The cherub that covers," rebels against God thinking himself good enough to dethrone God. During the entire rebellion God could've twitched a finger and that would've been the end of Satan, but instead God allowed a war with Satan that ended in his expulsion. After the expulsion Satan realized another way to get at God was to get his creation to join the rebellion.

It's interesting how Satan worked right at the beginning. His normal tactic is to strike at the weakest link, in the context of Adam and Eve, Eve was the weakest of the two, made to be a helpmeet to Adam. Subservient and basically following like Adam would follow God. He put it into her mind and said, "You can be the leader," thus she became the leader into the fall. Satan's work was done.

Where I'm taking this post though is in the next move. Satan was done after Eve took the bite. He didn't stick around anymore, he doesn't come back into the picture at all until God talks about how the seed of Eve will crush his head. But Adam still falls. He sees Eve in her fallen state and is crushed...but the pull that God created in our nature to save the woman, to help her, to be her hero, takes hold of Adam and he decides that he would rather live in a fallen state for the rest of his life than live without Eve. Thus our human natures have come about as a result of the trend set at the fall.

This is not to direct fire at women who are working or that their real place is in the kitchen...I'm not like that. The discussion of men not leading though is a separate issue. I want to point out in this post that women have an unnatural pull on men, and they have a power over them in many contexts. Do not forget that you do, which I doubt that you will. But as with any power, there is responsibility, and an answering for with what you done with it.

Even in relationships now, where the thought of marriage perhaps has not even entered the discussions. Future life is not even an issue, the pull is still there. The way you dress, and the way you act around any guy can be harmful if you are loose in either category. On the other hand, modesty and seeking after God I think will take care of both, as well as score some pretty good points with the guys that are of real quality.

God made you the way you are...it's nothing to be afraid of, but it is something to watch for. Use discretion. You do more than you know when you're loose.