The Godly Woman and Works

Greetings sisters! 

How are you going as you strive along the narrow road? 

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:12

A sister read me Genesis 22 (you can go see what that's about) this morning and so that got me pondering about how our works of obedience are a big test of our faith...the evidence of it. 

Think how big that must have been for Abraham to be preparing to offer his special promised son to God! He obeyed...even if it was the hardest thing! 

Today we have tests to our faith too whether we will obey God or choose our own way (which is sin). 

So I thought I'd read James 2 for you sisters. 

So that's all a great lesson for us isn't it! A great encouragement too knowing we have tests and trials ahead. God spoke and told Abraham what to do...and he obeyed. Now we have the written word of God and He speaks through His Son. 

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Hebrews 1:1-2

In relation to us women, we obey what He commanded us to do today. Of course there are many areas as we live by all His Words but just a few for women would be how we are to be under male authority in submission, dressed in biblical clothing, headcovered, helper to a husband (if we have one), keeper at home, have a meek and quiet spirit, not adorn our outsides, and such like. 

These are acts of obedience that prove our true faith in Christ, amen sisters? 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

We must first come through faith in our Saviour's death for our sin. Repent of our ways and turn from them. Be born from above by the Spirit and given a new heart and mind to love and obey God, which will lead to a holy life. And we all must endure until the end. Then we shall get our reward and be with the Father forever, sisters! For now we have work to do and trials to go through. Let's glorify the Lord in living lives which produce fruit which is evidence of repentance. 

Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Matthew 3:8

And we can then reach out to the lost with this same glorious gospel of Christ which has transformed our lives! 

So let us women press on in obeying God not listening to people who try to tell us we don't have to obey God any more, or that we are trying to work our way to heaven by our obedience. It doesn't matter what people think in the end. We will stand before God alone one day. Let's not be deceived by others. 

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:5-8

And I'm blessed to get to sew another skirt... 

I'm grateful to be able to help meet the needs for women in providing biblical clothing. 

I like seeing a piece of fabric cut and sewn, in the meanwhile producing a mess of threads and things, and then turning into a useful item. 

It's a blessing to work with our hands in good and pure things. 

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

1 Thessalonians 4:11

I'm thankful to God that He told us how to dress ourselves too. It really is a basic yet urgent necessity of life. They are sin coverings after all (and provide warmth). That's far from sounding like a fashion statement or anything else we see going on today. 

And God provided good food for us another day... 

And more yummy berry chia pudding...

This is interesting...some feta cheese my youngest sister made... 

We are richly blessed with so much variety of food in our lives to sustain us. 

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

 

Thank you sister for gifting me with those scripture pictures:-) 

OK sisters...if the Lord lets me live another day here I shall be back. And if He blessed me with health and technology to do this too. Let's not take this ability to do what we can today for granted. We never know when what we have will be taken away. Praise God we can press one another on today. 

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 

While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Hebrews 3:12-15 

Love in Christ, 

...from one of God's daughters

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