Religious Women or Godly Women?

A passage of scripture that has been on my heart for the past few years (which, by the way, is an indictment specifically against women) is found in 2 Timothy 3.  Verse five talks about people “who will act as if they are religious but they will reject the power that could make them Godly!!” 

 

Verse six says that there are vulnerable, weak willed, silly women!!!  Women!  It does not say men….it says women!!  My heart has been burdened and heavy over the fact that many of the women in our churches—or maybe even us—are vulnerable or weak willed or silly and rejecting the power to be Godly and settling for being religious!!!

The passage tells us why these women are weak and silly and vulnerable and why they reject the power to be Godly….it is because they are:

1.      “Burdened with the guilt of sin

2.      Controlled by many desires

3.      Forever following new teachings but never understand the Truth!!”

Yikes!  Take a look at the women in your church.  What do you see?  Do you see women who are religious but not Godly?  Not powerful?  Who are burdened with the guilt of sin….not appropriating the forgiveness and freedom Jesus offers? 

Do you see women who are controlled by the desire to look younger or cuter or thinner?  Or women who are controlled by the desire to be liked and popular and accepted?  Or women who are swayed by what the world thinks more than what God thinks? 

Do the women in your church go to all of the women’s Bible studies but never come to understand the truth?  Do they fill in all of the blanks and say the right things but reject Truth?  Do they continue thinking the same way?  Doing the same things?  Are they fearful to walk with the Lord?  Do they understand the Truth about what it means to be a Godly woman?  Wife?  Mom?

Let’s come together as pastor’s wives and pray specifically for God to move mightily in and through our women.  That we would have churches full of Godly women…not simply religious women.