Trying to Fit Into Society’s Expectations

The Bible cites so many examples of women who were used by God to make a real impact on history.
In Judges 4, during a particularly depressing time in the history of God’s people, there was a real leadership crisis.
And everyone was crying out for God to take action and so God did. He called a woman, named Debra, and he assigned her to the top leadership position in the land and used her to engineer a political and military turnaround that eventually led the nation into 40 years of peace and prosperity.
God knew how He had made, gifted and equipped Debra. He knew that she could handle that assignment. Debra didn’t resist God’s assignment by asking,
“What will men think?”
“What will other women think?”
“Will it fit with the cultural expectation?”
She just broke right out of that mold, took her cues from God and was powerfully used by God to alter the course of the history of God’s people.
What if we rejected the notion of a single appropriate mold – a mold defined by men, a mold defined by other women, or a mold defined by society. Break out of that and do what God created you to do. Follow your passions. He gave those to you.


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