Isaiah 47
God loves women. His creation of Eve as the best gift to Adam was the crowning achievement of creation, and was the difference between a “not good” in Genesis 2 and the “very good” at the end of the days of creation. We love our young daughters and the young women among our people. Where would we be without them? Yet young women are not without their own tendencies toward sin, though of course there are exceptions among them as to their common way of life, just as there are among young men. Young women are so often interested in their own outer beauty, and young men are often interested only in beautiful young women. Physical beauty is a wonderful gift, though it is fleeting. It is the rare young woman who does not fall into the trip of forgetting those things that matter the most in order to chase after attainments that so quickly pass away. The beauty that we need to seek is not merely outward beauty, but the inner beauty of a submissive heart.
There is something in such generalizations that may seem to describe one subculture more than another, although it is interesting that Peter speaks to Christian women warning them regarding these matters, Amos writes to women in the northern kingdom of
This pattern of sin is not without trouble. One common consequence of searching the hardest for those things that fly away from us the fastest can be that when we seem to have our goal in hand, for that brief moment we can be so quickly proud and abusive of others. But the victory we proudly enjoy may be gone in a moment. The women who are part of a conquering power may be tender and delicate today, but what will they do when their men lose in battle. They may need to know how to do things that only their slaves did back in the former days of glory. They may be the ones moving through rivers as deported exiles when they were once carefully attending to the style of their hair.
Who has brought these changes to pass? Who takes the woman who was in a high place and brings her low? It is the Redeemer of Israel – the Holy One – the Lord God. God reveals here through Isaiah that the mistress of kingdoms, great
The women of
There is a day of evil that is too much for us. We must hide in the righteousness of our strong and valiant husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is ours to seek the beauty of holiness and submission to the Lord today. He has an eye for beauty that is different than foolish young men who seem to seek only foolish young women. We need the Lord’s word of power, a word of forgiveness, protection, and healing. This He alone can speak because of who He is. There is no one like Him. In His light you will find the warmth of a divine fire that can be with you forever. Do not wander from Him, but follow Him with the full assurance of everlasting love from the Man who gave His blood for His holy bride, the church.
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