I saw this quote on
Time-Warp Wife.blogspot.com and thought it was worth reposting. This speaks to me because I was once that woman that thought my freedom was found in protecting my rights ( self imposed ones that is :-) When I was first married I had a list posted on our refrigerator of delegated duties ( gasp ) and we thought it was a 50/50 situation. It did not take too long to know that it was much more than that. I remember asking people to pray for me so that I would have a true heart for my husband and my home. I am so thankful for their prayers and how God has taught me His ways. It has brought such great freedom into our lives. I tell my children that true creativity exists within boundaries. If we had no guidelines or boundaries there would be no reason to be creative. All that to say, Jesus is my Freedom, He is also my boundaries. He came to set the captives free and now we get to live a life of obedience to Him because of His love and grace in our lives. What a tremendous God we have.
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.'
A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate---humble obedience---but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.
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