It’s “Very Good” To Be A Woman
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YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT… WATCH ME
In clown world, you cannot speak to me unless you agree with me. And you certainly can not speak intelligently on a topic unless it comports with your personal experience. For instance, a white person could not and should not opine about a topic like racism these days because they obviously have no experience with being oppressed (As assumptions go). At best, she is a closet white supremacist, and he is clearly sitting advantageously atop the oppressor mountain (as assumptions continue). According to our new class of social and moral philosophers, the melanin-challenged among us could not possibly have anything to add on such a subject because they have been blinded by decades and centuries of toxic advantage and privilege. If you disagree with such pitiful logic, it is just your white fragility barking.
The same is true when a man opens his Bible and studies a topic like womanhood. He may be learning the truth from the very designer of women, but his opinions are somehow invalid because he has no experience of being a woman. This kind of abysmal logic comes from a feministic culture that no longer knows what it means to be a woman. Now, women can have penises, men can have babies, and groomers who wear dresses can disrobe and flash their genitals in front of little girls, all in the name of womanhood. Perhaps, even a white male pastor, looking at what the author and perfecter of femininity has to say about it, could offer a clearer picture of a woman than the so-called experts. Just maybe.
PUTTING FORWARD THE QUESTION
The question "What Is A Woman" has more recently become a viral topic on social media since the Daily Wire decided to make their signature documentary "What Is A Woman" by Matt Walsh free on Twitter. The documentary explores that very question, "What is a woman" and allows various representatives from clown world to hang themselves with utterly ridiculous propositions. For that reason, it is a must-see.
Yet, other than a last-second quip by Matt's wife that a woman is a "Human biological female," the documentary utterly fails to answer its own question with any sufficient treatment. Therefore, I would like to offer a Biblical case for what a woman is and why womanhood is a very good thing.
WHAT IS A WOMAN?
From the moment we open the Bible, we are bombarded by what a woman is. According to Scripture, a woman is a special creation (Genesis 1:26) endowed with blessing, significance, and value by the creator who sculpted her in His image (Genesis 1:27-28). In that image, she has been made equal in personhood to the male God called her to correspond with, yet she is made distinct from him in her body, role, and rank.
THE WOMAN'S BODY
Regarding her body, she was made to be visually stimulating to her husband. The Bible does not present an androgynous woman who binds her breasts and wears men's clothing; in fact, it forbids such a thing ( Deuteronomy 22:5). This is because feminine sexual beauty, when rightly expressed in the confines of covenant marriage (1 Timothy 2:9-10), is a beautiful and glorious thing. Take, for example, Adam. When he stirs from a deep siesta the Lord God put him into, He awakens with blissful delight to behold a woman's naked body (Genesis 2:23). She was made lovely, with softened curves and rounded thighs (Song of Solomon 7:1) that will intoxicate her man, and leave him ever satisfied with her breasts all his days (Proverbs 5:19). Far from being a repulsive aspect of masculinity, male sexual attraction for his wife is part of a woman's glory. The man is not deviant for desiring his wife, and she is not sensate when flaunting her naked body in front of him to cultivate his desire. She receives affection and attraction from her husband in a way no one else can, and he covenants to cling to her, protect her, provide for her, and love her all His days (Genesis 2:24).
This is why the Bible says it is not good for the man to be alone, because when the man is alone, the woman is left unprotected, unloved, and unprovided for. Instead, her radiating beauty is meant to allure him and then tame him to become more than a man. In her love, he becomes a gentleman, a provider, a father, and a companion. Through her womb, she will bring forth legacies of people who will subdue the earth per God's perfect vision (Genesis 1:28) and bring manifold blessings to her husband (Psalm 127:5).
Neither the man nor the woman could accomplish God's plan independently. But through distinct yet equal giftings, they cling to one another in blessings; she becomes the man's helper (Genesis 2:18), and together they become fruitful, multiplying, ruling, and subduing to the glory of God. In this sense, she was made for man, to help execute the vision he will be held accountable to the Lord for, not vice versa (1 Corinthians 11:9).
Women are also made with a body that can produce children. She has a monthly menstruation that men cannot have, signifying her ability to bring life, even from the throes of death (Leviticus 15). During ovulation, a woman's sexual drive increases as a way of helping her become pregnant. During conception, she will take a single sperm cell and transform it into an eternal living being (Psalm 139:13), which demonstrates part of the miracle of what it is to be a woman. She takes the small blessings a man gives her, and she multiplies them across the whole of her life. And while the delivery of those children has become arduous and painful because of sin (Genesis 3:16), the woman has a unique and hormonal ability to forget her pain the moment the child is born (John 16:21). After the delivery, the breasts that were used to satisfy her husband, now nourish her infant babes physically from the milk God has made for her to produce (1 Thessalonians 2:7). And, in her mothering, she develops an extraordinary love for her children, that even their father cannot fully comprehend (Isaiah 49:15) that will cause her to give up everything for the blessing of her children. Her body was made for her husband and her children, and from her body, a multitude of blessings flow out to everyone around her.
THE WOMAN'S ROLE
While many would like to deny it, a woman's role is not to compete with men in the workplace. She was made physically weaker than him and cannot compete with him in his domain (1 Peter 3:7). Yet, just because she is physically weaker than the man does not make her inferior to him. Take, for example, fine china. Only an idiot would attempt to use fine china to hammer in a nail. It was not made for brute strength but for something precious. In the same way, women were not made to compete with the power of men but to use their unique and delicate bodies for a precious purpose.
The Bible tells us that the woman's worth is not compounded by her raw power like iron or steel, but like rubies and diamonds (Proverbs 3:15; 31:10), which speak to her value. She is the reason her husband is known in the gates (Proverbs 31:23), and she is a powerful demonstration of the Lord's goodness and favor upon his life (Proverbs 18:22). The reason for this is simple, she takes the raw resources that a man can procure in his blood, sweat, and tears, and she multiplies them to the glory of God in order to build a home that is teeming with life (Proverbs 14:1). Without her, life, vitality, and flourishing would not come to people and the world would be a barren wasteland. Yet, when a woman functions in the way God designed her, gardens pop up, life bursts forth, and people are nourished, flourishing, and blessed.
Again, the man produces and extracts the raw resources from the ground and gives them to the woman. Once she has them, she takes those materials and multiplies them, making them valuable and advantageous for life. Take the vision of womanhood Proverbs 31 paints as an example. The husband never lacks in gain because of His wife's ministry of multiplication (v. 11). Every time he gives her something, she takes it and reproduces it so that he becomes inestimably blessed. She works with her hands in delight (v. 13). Strength and dignity are her covering (v. 25). She brings food to her people from afar (v. 14). She wakes early in the morning to provide for the needs of her home (v. 15) and often goes to bed late providing for their future (v. 16). She is strong (v. 17), prudent (v. 18), industrious for the good of her family (v. 19), and generous to those who are without (v. 20). She smiles at the future (v. 25) and plans appropriately for calamity (v. 21). She ensures that she and her family are royally clothed (v. 21-22). She makes a profit on whatever is left (v. 23). She opens her mouth and brings wisdom into her residence (v. 26). She looks well to the building up of her house (v. 27). And as the reward for her labors, she has a husband who cannot stop praising her and children who will rise up and call her blessed (v. 28). This is what a woman is!
This plan is so central to the heart of God and so necessary to the purpose of women that God advises the older women in a community to intentionally and deliberately teach this vision to the younger women, lest they become guilty of blaspheming the Word of God (Titus 2:4-5). While most modern translations don't have the stomach to translate the Greek of Titus 2:4 as it ought to be translated, the word used in this passage is βλασφημῆται, which means "to blaspheme." Let that sink in. When a woman does not:
Love her husband and children.
Act with sensibility and purity.
Work diligently in her home,
Along with being kind to her family,
And being subject to her husband,
Then she is blaspheming God's Word. To say that differently, when a woman spurns her creator's vision for her life, she curses her God. This is not what I say; this is what Scripture says.
THE WOMAN'S RANK
Other passages continue to fill out a theology of what a woman is by describing her rank. For instance, she is not called to be head over her husband but to be the crown that sits atop her husband's head (Proverbs 12:4). She is to submit to his leadership (Colossians 3:18), in the same way, that the church submits to the Lord Jesus Christ, because this is a demonstration of the Gospel (Ephesians 5:22-24). Even when a woman is married to an unbeliever or a man who refuses to obey the Word of God, she is called to submit to that man, winning him over by her excellent and godly behavior (1 Peter 3:1-2).
This does not imply that all women are subject to all men. The Bible says no such thing. But in the context of covenant marriage, a woman must choose a suitable and godly husband to submit to all the days of her life. This is why courting must elucidate the kind and quality of the man the woman is attempting to marry so that she does not find herself submitting to a wretch or a fool. Yet, even in such cases, her godly femininity can be used by the Lord to not only win over an oafish buffoon but also to make him holy by proximity to her righteous living (1 Corinthians 7:14).
The picture the Scriptures are careful to paint is a joyfully submissive woman who brings life to the world through her femininity (1 Timothy 2:11-15). She is beautiful and attractive to her husband. She uses her lips to speak kindness to the members of her family (Proverbs 31:26), and she gains great honor through her graciousness (Proverbs 11:16). And she displays a quiet and beautiful demeanor before the Lord (1 Peter 3:3-4) that makes her worthy of great praise (Proverbs 31:30).
IT IS GOOD TO BE A WOMAN
In the same way, we celebrate who God made man to be; we can shout to the heavens how excellent and wonderful it is for women to be women! And by women, we are talking about Biblically defined womanhood! We are not celebrating the perverted, diminished, and hollowed-out femininity the world has championed. We are celebrating the God-ordained, glorious femininity that is beautiful and wholly pleasing to God. That femininity is expressed in her body, her sexuality, her motherhood, her role, and her rank within her home.
For all of that, she is described as supremely valuable, her worth far exceeding the most precious stones and metals. She is a multiplier of life and the only reason her husband is ever called blessed. If man is the glory of God, and woman is the glory of man, then she is being described as the glory of the glory, which makes her tremendously treasured.
Dear women, do not buy into the disgusting lies fomented by fairy tales and feminists. You will never meet a happy feminist because their lumberjack view of womanhood destroys womanhood entirely.
Dear sisters, daughters, mothers, and wives, embrace the beautiful, glorious, and domestic calling God has given you. Rejoice amid the mess and the stress of a burgeoning home. Find joy and laughter when the markers decorate your walls, the spaghetti gets flung on your ceiling, or when the task of doing it all seems too big for you. It is too big for you, in your own strength. That much is true. But let that truth remind you of a better truth. You are needy in your role because the Lord designed you to ever be in need of Him! In fact, that is the most glorious and beautiful part of womanhood, that she is lovely and submissive to her God (Proverbs 31:30).
Invest in your home, cultivate it to the glory of God, and you, dear saint, will have a lasting legacy that will continue for generations.
