Created female in His image

Welcome to the Created Female community

Welcome, friends, to Created Female.

You are likely here because you love the Lord and you want to grow in your knowledge of Him and His design for you as a woman.

The world is full of differing narratives about womanhood and femininity.

We are here to cut through that noise to the truth, goodness, and beauty of God’s Word.

Please join me as we quiet our minds, tune our hearts, and happily surrender to our Lord.

Dear Lord,

Thank you for the woman who is reading this today, and for bringing her into our community. I pray that we can minister to her and that we can all reflect your love back towards one another. Give us the wisdom, peace, and love to serve you and serve others in our lives, to your glory and our edification. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Created Female

You were perfectly designed in the image of a perfect, creator God, Whose hand crafted you in your mother’s womb.

You were made…female.

In the beginning, the only thing that God saw that was not good was that Adam had yet to find a suitable companion.

And so, he made Eve, a “helper suitable” as it is often translated, but a more accurate modern English rendering of this ezer kenegdo might be perfectly made companion or, more simply put, “other half.”

Woman was made for man, and man for the glory of God, so that mankind in its completeness after Eve was crafted was well made to glorify its Maker.

It is no wonder — and also a great mystery — that this divinely crafted, beautifully created relationship is where the enemy struck first.

See: Genesis 1-3

We are here to strip past the earthly-minded “do’s” and “don’ts” you’ll find in many contemporary narratives on men, women, marriage, family, and sexual morality.

Yes, there are many black-and-white issues when it comes to how we were created and God’s standards for righteousness in the family and the marriage bed, and these issues are of the utmost importance to understand.

However, too often, so-called “biblical womanhood” is presented with a disordered view of God’s standards and morality.

You know the expression, “putting the cart before the horse,” correct? Well, too often, the proverbial horse of the Gospel that ought to be pulling the proverbial carriage of what marriage and family ought to look like when governed by God’s standards is sadly placed in the wrong order, with man-oriented performative “biblical womanhood” standing squarely in the path of the spiritually transformative truth of the Gospel.

Reorienting Your Heart

So, what I hope we can come together to embody and glorify as women is that the Gospel’s power in our life is the horse that pulls the cart that is a woman that glorifies the Lord.

A woman who lives chastely and follows the rules does so in vain if her motivation is her own sense of righteousness rather than self-denying service to her Lord.

A woman who pleases her husband and raises up well-behaved children is no better off than a heathen if the thing that drives her every day is her desire to feel morally superior to other women.

Meanwhile, a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised, as the famous proverb tells us (Proverbs 31:30).

It is a woman who cultivates a gentle and quiet spirit and fears the Lord only that can turn a husband towards the Word (1 Peter 3).

The most common issue I hear from women who long to live out God’s plan for marriage in their lives is that they are trying, but feel their husband is not. Or, they long to be a godly wife, but feel they faill short constantly. Or, they cherish being able to be a homemaker and stay-at-home mom, but feel overwhelmed and like a constant failure.

All of these issues are deeply sympathetic, and I’m sure quite literally billions of women throughout history would be able to relate.

After all, all we women throughout human history have suffered the same affliction: sin. Not merely our tendency to break God’s moral law, but also the fact that we are subject to the downsides of everyone else’s sin as well as our own mortality.

We are broken and wounded.

Jesus died to set us all free.

The ultimate hero and knight-in-shining-armor, Christ has already completed the work of righteousness, to free us from the burden of having do to so ourselves.

The point is not to live out “biblical womanhood” for our own righteousness, but to let Christ’s righteous blood cleanse us of all our sin.

We fear God — Who liberates us from sin — above all else.

So, no matter what we are doing as women who arrange their lives according to God, if He is at the center of our lives, we are glorifying Him.

It is Jesus’ work in our lives that transforms us.

And what is Jesus’ work in our lives made manifest?

A transformed mind that is oriented not around the fears of the world or an errant sense of earthly righteousness, but Christ’s transforming salvation.

Rest. In. Him.

This is the beginning of true biblical womanhood, which I think is much more properly expressed as Christian femininity.

Resting in His goodness, truth, and beauty

So, as we begin this journey together, I want to challenge you to do three things. These new habits will largely comprise the “work” that we are aiming to do together which, as previously discussed, is hardly work at all.