Women of God

 What makes a woman powerful? Many have asked this question, and there have been a

 spectrum of answers. One might say her beauty, or determination. Another might respond

 that it is her confidence. These are all great attributes, however, they are all fleeting if the

 woman does not have this one single characteristic. This quality is not obtained through her

 looks, or the people she comes into contact with. It is something few women have, but

 something that everyone can feel, it shines like a light in the darkness. It can lift up these

 qualities, and make them eternal. 

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This power is her identity, the sureness of herself, not through her achievements, but through

 a person who knows of her true value, a person that suffered every pain just for this single

 woman. This person is Christ. Christ gives us true confidence, love and virtue, because he sees

 us as we truly are. He removes all the doubts in our minds, the sufferings of the soul that

 plague us to our core, he takes these trials, and makes them our strengths. 

Sheri Dew said "as we come to understand the same thing, we will feel greater purpose and

 more confidence living as women of god in a world that does not celebrate women of god."

 This world is filled with women of validation, women of position, but few and far between are

 there women of truth. 

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Is there weakness, do you compare yourself to

 others? Where do you draw your confidence from? Is it from others validation, from what

 others have experienced, or does it come from the one true person who sees you as you will

 become?

Christ cried out in agony when he felt the pain that you went through, he saw you as you now

 see yourself, he felt the doubt and bitterness that floods through you every time you look in

 the mirror. He heard and hears your cries as you ask am I really good enough? I wish I could

 be someone else. 

When we came to this earth we were given trials, depression, anxiety, and other impairments;

 these trials flood our brain with insecurity, they cause us to compare ourselves to others,

 instead of drawing to the Lord for a true vision of ourselves. These problems flood our brain

 with lies, they tell us that we are not good enough, that we need to look perfect, act and be the

 ideal person. 

This is a problem that plagues our society, because the ideal person that we have in our brain

 does not even compare to how strong and powerful we already are, because of our trials we

 cannot see how elect we truly are. This woman of society  lacks the light in her eyes, the crown

 the rests atop her head is made of Jules, when it could be made of stars, that light the lives of

 others. Instead of being impacted, she changes others lives, because she does not see herself

 as the world sees her, that blockage is gone, she looks beyond this world, and views things

 through the eyes of the one true perfect being, Jesus Christ.