Have you ever really listened to a group of women talking and socializing with one another? There is one word that invariably comes up more than any other word. It is used so often and spontaneously, that it is as natural as breathing. It is a word frequently used and fuels the topics of conversation for most women.
The word is, “feel”. “I just feel like she should have....”, “I really feel like he is not....”, “I just feel so....” This is precisely how women, young and old, communicate. Most of a woman’s conversation springs from how she feels about any given subject. There are other times that she may not talk at all; if she isn’t physically well or she doesn’t have an opinion on the subject discussed.
What’s my point? Whether women will admit it or not, most of their opinions are “feelings” motivated! Having a “feeling” about something is not bad in and of itself. A woman’s feelings or premonition have saved many a child from potential harm or injury. That sixth sense, that women seem to have at times, has often been a blessing to her family.
Our adversary, the Devil, that “roaring lion”, knows that a woman intuitively “feels” on a multitude of levels. This becomes a serious problem when we closely examine what we are feeling so opinionated about, why we have that opinion and where it came from. Answering these three questions will clearly prove what kind of woman we really are.
Women speak from their feelings most of the time. Our thoughts are nurtured and fed by our emotions. A woman’s feelings can change in one minute’s time, all because of a new input. It may come from an outside influence or from her own thoughts, and before you know it...BOOM...she is in the pit and out of control or over the moon with joyful elation.
Is this a bad thing? What’s the big deal anyway? It becomes a big deal because we use our feelings to influence others! My friend, it is best that we not underestimate the power of our influence. Take a good look at Eve in the book of Genesis. She is a perfect example of how influence can change a life, a destiny. It only took one voice for her to be persuaded against what her Creator God had already said. With that input, she affected Adam and we all live with the results of that one decision.
Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”
I think it’s long passed time that women, who call themselves a Christian, start thinking with the mind of Christ.
Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in YOU, which was also in Christ Jesus...”
What kind of mind is this? It’s a Biblical mind, a “thinking from the scripture” mind. So few think in this manner. Feelings thinking is the norm and this unbiblical, fleshly thinking is destroying marriages, children and our churches.
Ladies, biblical thinking can keep us from growing into bitter, cranky old women. A woman who really knows God, will know that true spirituality is found only through obeying God’s Word and not when following her own emotional sensibilities.
Your heart attitudes MAKE your life.
Proverbs 4:23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out if a woman is thinking biblically. Just listen for a few minutes and you’ll know. A woman with constant “issues”, a complaining spirit and moodiness, is not a biblically thinking woman. She is thinking only from her feelings. That’s why she has the moodiness, the complaints and “issues”.
Why is this true?
Because the Bible says so. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: (why?) because he trusteth in thee.” Isaiah 26:3
The verbalizing of her complaints, her moodiness and her life issues, reveal her lack of peace. It shows her to be what she is.
Lack of peace reveals a woman who does not trust in the Lord with all her heart and has no peace with God.
Psalm 119:165 “Great peace HAVE they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”
The Biblical helpmeet in the home needs to be operating with the mind of Christ everyday. Your influence on your family is too great for you to allow your feelings to go unchecked and unbridled. I have seen more than my fair share of “Christian women” that did not live each day with the mind of Christ in control. How they felt about parents, people in the church, their pastor and their own husband, began to be revealed by the unbiblical behavior they demonstrated in the final severing of God given relationships.
Let’s bring those “feelings” that go against the Truth of scripture, “into captivity, to the obedience of Christ”. II Corinthians 10:5
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Thank you. :)
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