The Godly Woman: Our Goal

This is a good poem I read today expressing the importance of Godly women.

What Our Country Needs

What does our country need? Not armies standing

With sabres gleaming ready to fight;

Not increased navies, skillful and commanding,

To bound the waters with an iron might;

Not haughty men with glutted purses trying

To purchase souls,and keep the power of place;

Not jeweled dolls with one another vying

For palms of beauty, elegance and grace.

But we want women,strong of soul,yet lowly

With that rare meekness,born of gentleness;

Women whose lives are pure and clean and holy,

The women whom all little children bless;

Brave,earnest women,helpful to each other,

With finest scorn for things low and mean;

Women who hold the names of wife and mother

Far nobler than the title of a queen.

- UNKNOWN

That is exactly the kind of woman we should want and try to be.

Here is an even better description:

"...Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household,and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done well, but thou exellest them all.Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised..."

Proverbs 31:25 - 30

I encourage you to read the whole chapter!

This is truly the biblical model for godly womanhood.(and girlhood too!)

Edited and transfered from my blog The Beauty Of Girlhood.

Originally posted in Spring 2008.