God has always valued women. In Old Testament history, great women were used to win battles or be judges, a prostitute was used to hide God’s spies and that resulted in deliverance for more than herself, a wife was used to set aside a king’s anger against her husband. In New Testament history, a woman was Paul’s first convert, women were great tools of the Lord in His ministry and in the ministry to the apostles later. The Bible, God’s ‘history and promise’ Word, is full of the amazing feats of women. Lest we forget, it was the body of a young woman that brought ‘peace on earth, good will to men’ in the form of a Baby, our Savior, Jesus Christ. An unmarried, upstanding morally upright Jewish girl who was so surrendered to God’s will that she didn’t balk at what she knew her culture would assume about her when she was found to be pregnant. She could have been stoned until death, for that was the punishment of that culture for women who were pregnant outside of marriage. It is to her fiance, Joseph’s ,credit that he listened to the angel God sent to tell Joseph that Mary’s child was conceived by the Holy Spirit. God’s greatest Gift was sent through a woman. God loves women. Those women that ‘society’ deems unfit, God used. Those women ‘society’ deemed as good, God used. That Samaritan woman we read about in John 4 likely wasn’t at the well at lunchtime in the heat of the day because she had slept in. No, more likely she was there to avoid the ‘good’ women, because she has been married five times and was living with a man she wasn’t married to. Yet, it was this woman Jesus felt compelled to go into the town to see. Out of that meeting, that woman went and said, “Come see a man who told me all I’ve done.” The city was saved. By a woman ‘society’ deemed to be less than fit. There’s no woman God does not love, no woman by whom God will not deliver.
I find it amazing and fascinating that God, knowing everything, EVERYTHING, looked at Adam one day and said, “This is not good. Adam should not be alone. I will make him a helper.” Why is that amazing? Because God knew beforehand that the woman he would create would be the instrument that ultimately gave sin an entry into the perfection of the world He created. The question arises, “What was God thinking to make a woman when He knew what she would do?” The answer has to be “He thought she was worth it.” God had, from the foundations of the world, according to the Word, known He would have to send a Savior. If that need came about by Eve, so be it. Women were created by God, for His pleasure and for His glory. From the first one, to the last one, whenever that last one is, God Himself has placed value on women. There is nothing that can separate us from His love for us. The only hindrance is if we don’t know that.
There are women in many cultures who have never heard of their value. There are women who have never believed they have value. My hope is that every woman will utter these words from Ephesians which I have paraphrased and made personal here. “God, show me how much you love me.”
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