Proverbs 31 as a professional woman - Part 53
COLUMN: SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY
Dear loyal readers, I trust that you’re blessed and highly favoured.
Thank you for joining me on this journey as we continue to unpack success principle ten for Proverbs 31 as a professional woman: “She’s strong, courageous and discerning”. Please read parts 36-52 for more context.
Having written extensively on the above topic, it’s my sincere hope that we will move away from trying things in our own strength and turn our hearts in humble submission and love towards Abba Father, whose plans are for our benefit and good (Romans 8:28; Jeremiah 29:11).
Sometimes it’s tempting not to lean on God when you have the option to do things your way. Before I was born again, I had a complicated history of ‘God I will show You’ – whenever I thought He didn’t hear me or whenever I thought He was taking too long or ignoring me.
Well, He certainly showed me my need of Him, not the other way around.
It takes strength and courage to take all your worries and fears to the Lord. To fall apart in front of Him. To lay yourself flat at His feet and to beg for mercy because there’s nothing that you can do about a situation.
While you have the option to make things happen in your own strength, it takes courage to trust the Lord while, in the eyes of men, you might look like God has forsaken you or forgotten about you. It takes strength to hold on to Him to strengthen you when your circumstances are challenging you to give up.
Trusting in His strength depends on you letting go of your own strength so that, in the end, the glory is in Him revealing His strength through you.
Childbirth is one example of the power of God magnificently displayed. There comes a point when every woman cries out to God to help her and this helplessness leads mothers to relate to God’s strength both physically and supernaturally. This pivotal experience creates a supernatural connection that makes her desire to continue pursuing Him further during the parental journey.
Why?
Because she recognises her need of Him, above her own strength.
For men, there’s one person who innately understood His need of God and approached Him, not from a place of strength but from a place of submission and understanding that He couldn’t fulfil His assignment without the help of God to strengthen Him.
You’re probably thinking about King David.
Actually, it's Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
In Hebrews 5:7 (AMP) it is written:
“In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].”
Jesus Christ cried in front of God and He trusted Him with His tears while expressing His need of Him. This intimacy is a result of knowing that He could take the good, the bad and the ugly parts of His earthly assignment to God.
You’re probably thinking, “How bad was it for Jesus?”
Well, His assignment in public had its own challenges, and at home He had to deal with the fact that initially even His own brothers didn’t believe in the work that He came to do (John 7:1-5). Mark 6:1-6 demonstrates the negative impact of familiarity, and in Mark 6:4 (AMP):
“Jesus said to them, 'A prophet is not without honour (respect) except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.'”
In your assignment, you will face opposition from outside, but sometimes the opposition comes from home, and it is the one that hurts the most.
Like Jesus Christ, be encouraged to take it all to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to strengthen you to fulfil your assignment in alignment with His will – for His glory.
Shalom
Thank you for joining me on this journey as we continue to unpack success principle ten for Proverbs 31 as a professional woman: “She’s strong, courageous and discerning”. Please read parts 36-52 for more context.
Having written extensively on the above topic, it’s my sincere hope that we will move away from trying things in our own strength and turn our hearts in humble submission and love towards Abba Father, whose plans are for our benefit and good (Romans 8:28; Jeremiah 29:11).
Sometimes it’s tempting not to lean on God when you have the option to do things your way. Before I was born again, I had a complicated history of ‘God I will show You’ – whenever I thought He didn’t hear me or whenever I thought He was taking too long or ignoring me.
Well, He certainly showed me my need of Him, not the other way around.
It takes strength and courage to take all your worries and fears to the Lord. To fall apart in front of Him. To lay yourself flat at His feet and to beg for mercy because there’s nothing that you can do about a situation.
While you have the option to make things happen in your own strength, it takes courage to trust the Lord while, in the eyes of men, you might look like God has forsaken you or forgotten about you. It takes strength to hold on to Him to strengthen you when your circumstances are challenging you to give up.
Trusting in His strength depends on you letting go of your own strength so that, in the end, the glory is in Him revealing His strength through you.
Childbirth is one example of the power of God magnificently displayed. There comes a point when every woman cries out to God to help her and this helplessness leads mothers to relate to God’s strength both physically and supernaturally. This pivotal experience creates a supernatural connection that makes her desire to continue pursuing Him further during the parental journey.
Why?
Because she recognises her need of Him, above her own strength.
For men, there’s one person who innately understood His need of God and approached Him, not from a place of strength but from a place of submission and understanding that He couldn’t fulfil His assignment without the help of God to strengthen Him.
You’re probably thinking about King David.
Actually, it's Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
In Hebrews 5:7 (AMP) it is written:
“In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].”
Jesus Christ cried in front of God and He trusted Him with His tears while expressing His need of Him. This intimacy is a result of knowing that He could take the good, the bad and the ugly parts of His earthly assignment to God.
You’re probably thinking, “How bad was it for Jesus?”
Well, His assignment in public had its own challenges, and at home He had to deal with the fact that initially even His own brothers didn’t believe in the work that He came to do (John 7:1-5). Mark 6:1-6 demonstrates the negative impact of familiarity, and in Mark 6:4 (AMP):
“Jesus said to them, 'A prophet is not without honour (respect) except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.'”
In your assignment, you will face opposition from outside, but sometimes the opposition comes from home, and it is the one that hurts the most.
Like Jesus Christ, be encouraged to take it all to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to strengthen you to fulfil your assignment in alignment with His will – for His glory.
Shalom
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