For years I had a scrap of paper posted on my fridge, with the antidote to becoming a grumpy old lady. Do you want to know what it said? Before I tell you, Let me explain what motivated my quest to keep this prescription on hand. It all started when I worked as a therapist [...]
There it was glaring out from the computer screen. The words I never thought I would see. I had been so confident in how God had directed me. For a moment I could not breathe. “We regret to inform you that…” I couldn’t read the rest of the email. The tears suddenly gushing down my face had obscured [...]
Under the influence of a woman, cities have crumbled (Joshua 2-6), and kings have caved (Mark 6). The power that a woman has to influence those around her is one of her strongest resources. And yet, some of us underestimate this influence. Scripture says differently.
Healthy emotional boundaries can be the difference between a break up and a break down! Discover how to navigate through the world of dating in The Godly Girl’s Guide to Guys.
How do you spot a fake? Most of us wouldn’t dare deal in counterfeit cash. But yet we tolerate counterfeit spirituality. We are two-faced. Our public persona doesn’t match our private one. You can spot a counterfeit designer handbag by opening it up and examining the details. This Girls Gone Wise video book blog outlines [...]
Did you know that you can tell the difference between a Girl-Gone-Wild and a Girl-Gone-Wise by looking at her feet? The Sage tells his son that he’ll be able to spot a Girl-Gone-Wild by the way she walks. He advises him to check out a woman’s feet, steps, path, and ways. Watch the video book blog, and check out what your feet reveal about YOU.
We’ve come to the end of the story, and to the last point of contrast between the wild and the wise. The simple young man who lacked sense and the wily seductress who caused his downfall are examples of two individuals who failed to walk in the way of wisdom. The Sage urged his son to pay close attention to their mistakes, so that he might learn from them. That’s why he told the story. And that’s why he wrote his book.
The covenant-keeping nature of God is the foundation for faithfulness within human relationships. His faithfulness places a responsibility for faithfulness on our shoulders. He expects us to keep faith with Him, with our spouses, and with other people. He wants us to be as reliable to our commitments as He is to His.
Last year, an Eritrean Christian woman, Azieb Simon, died of malaria in the Wi’a Military Training Center after being imprisoned and tortured for months. In Saudi Arabia, a member of the religious police cut his college daughter’s tongue off and burned her to death for converting Christianity. A 20-year-old Christian Pakistani woman, Sandul, falsely accused of ripping pages from the Quran, was thrown into jail after an angry mob from the local mosque threw stones and set fire to her home.
Mr. Facing-both-ways. His name says it all. This allegorical character in John Bunyan’s classic book, Pilgrim’s Progress, was two faced. One face pointed toward the Celestial City, and the other pointed toward the City of Destruction. Scripture talks about people who have a double heart, and are double-minded, double-tongued, and double faced.
“She is loud and wayward,” is how the sage father pegs the Proverbs 7 woman. The phrase definitely describes her behavior, but more than that, it sums up her prevailing state of mind. She’s a sassy, defiant, my-way-or-highway kind of a girl. Nowadays, the father might have described her by saying, “She’s got attitude!”
He swept her off her feet. I’m sure you’ve all heard the expression. People use it when a girl gets emotionally overwhelmed and romantically infatuated with a guy. He gains her immediate and unquestioning support, approval, acceptance and love. The idiom “swept off her feet” indicates that there is a strong connection between a girl’s heart and her feet. That connection is the first point of contrast between a Girl-Gone-Wild and a Girl-Gone-Wise.
