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January 11, 2020
The church has not been a big help here. No, that’s not quite honest enough. The church has been part of the problem. Its message to women has been primarily, “You are here to serve. That’s why God created you: to serve. In the nursery, in the kitchen, on the various committees, in your home, in your community.” Seriously now—picture the women we hold up as models of femininity in the church. They are sweet, they are helpful, and their hair is coiffed; they are busy, they are disciplined, they are composed, and they are tired.
Your heart as a woman is the most important thing about you.
And so the journey to discover what God meant when he created woman in his image—when he created you as his woman—that journey begins with your heart.
The desires of our heart bear a great glory because, as we will detail further in the next chapter, they are precisely where we bear the image of God. We long for certain things because he does!
every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things:
to be romanced,
play an irreplaceable role in a gre...
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unveil b...
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In our heart of hearts, that place where we are most ourselves, we don’t want to run away for very long. Our lives were meant to be lived with others.
desire to be captivating in the depths of who you are. An external beauty without a depth of character is not true beauty at all.
recognize that a woman yearns to be seen, and to be thought of as captivating?
possess a beauty
worth pur...
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worth fighti...
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beauty that is core to who we...
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beauty that can ...
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beauty that can ...
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beauty that affect...
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beauty all our own t...
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every man wants a battle
to fight.
Men also long for adventure.
Adventure is a deeply spiritual longing in the heart of every man.
He needs someone to fight for.
men long to offer their strength on behalf of a woman.
a journey of the heart.
discovering who you already are, as a woman. A woman who at her core was made for romance, made to play an irreplaceable role in a shared adventure, and who really does possess a beauty all her own to unveil.
When you are with a woman, ask yourself,
“What is she telling me about God?” It will open up wonders for you.
God is relational to his core,
he has a heart for romance.
he longs to share adventures with us—adventures you cannot acc...
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God has a beauty t...
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“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God” (John 17:3). The whole story of the Bible is a love story between God and his people. He yearns for us. He cares. He has a tender heart.
