I was in someone's office the other day and read a plaque. "Well-Behaved Women never make history..." Hhhmmm, I started rolling that around in my head. I asked Daddy, "Is that true?" Names started coming to mind. Were these 'good girls' according to society? Were these 'ladies who sat quietly, sipping tea and eating crumpets'? Were they 'approved of' or of the 'popular opinion'? Here are just a few that pop into my mind.
Rahab: Wow, talk about breaking all society's rules. She was a prostitute, pagan, single, used, abused woman. Others looked at her as a money maker, trash, no potential. She wasn't the kind of girl you brought home to mama. She left everything behind to join the Israelites at Jericho.
Tamar: Pushed from one husband to another, rejection, hurt, only wanting to be loved, wanted justice and the right thing to be done. Resorting to deception to fulfill her purpose. Finally, Judah honors her as a daughter for the rest of her life.
Ruth: A Moabite! A widow! No children! and then to leave her homeland to go to a place she knew she would not be embraced by. With the knowledge that she would have to work for the rest of her life, she had unbelievable honor, respect, and loyalty to a mother-in-law.
Mary: She was rebuked by the disciples, shunned, and told she wasted her inheritance as she poured out her precious oil on Jesus' feet. Her name rings through the generations. Her act, love, desperation can still be heard today.
I have never been a 'well-behaved woman'. But I have to ask myself, "Am I a living declaration of what Daddy has done in my life. Am I living up to my full potential?'
Remember, Rahab, Tamar, and Ruth are in the lineage of Christ. So what is history going to say about you......
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