Girl Power

So many of us girls like the thought of us having girl power. We live in a culture that says girls want equality and want eyes to see them as strong human beings. Yet in the midst of all of it, girls just reveal more weakness. Yes, I am a girl and yes I long to be strong. My point is, why must we degrade men to be stronger? Why must we degrade each other as women to become stronger?

These are questions I often ask myself scrolling through social media, reading women’s comments or blogs about how independent they are and how much they don’t need men or anyone, and we are all supposed to agree and say, “Right on!”, “Preach!”. But my gut just cringes at these comments. First of all, they’re right, they don’t need a man. BUT don’t degrade the fact that God created man first and designed us to be each other’s helpmate. So the proper thing to say would be, “I don’t want a man that doesn’t long for Jesus.” We only NEED Christ our savior. And He gave us a beautiful gift, man. My husband is an amazing leader and Truth lover which makes him a better man daily, which makes me a better woman daily as I follow his lead. Alright, I could go on for days about all that, but i won't...today.

Moving on. Let’s talk about not needing other women. Again let me reiterate how correct it is to only NEED Jesus. Christ alone is the Hope of glory so we don’t NEED other women. And also let me throw in here that God is THE Strength so in order for us to be strong at all we need to lean into The Strength. Ok, back to needing each other. Can you imagine what would happen if instead of looking down our nose at one another, we actually lifted each other up?! Hmmm… interesting thought right? And I don’t mean just the women you like and enjoy to be around. I’m talking about even the ones that annoy you to your core. We all got them special ladies in our lives. So instead of looking at “Sally’s” FB page and thinking ugh I’m so sick of her and all her drama. Why not pray for the girl?? I know I just got a few eye rolls, but seriously. Pray. Intercession works and if we really believe that then why don’t we do it more. How about complimenting instead of tearing one another down? Another great question! I think we rip each other to shreds Bc we are insecure and like the thought of us being better than someone. (Threw up in my mouth a little on that one) yeah that’s what pride is all about. Me me me me me me me. Icky.

So that’s what I meant earlier about weakness instead of strength. We believe a lie in order to make ourselves think we are stronger but we haven’t actually built resistance to become stronger. All that is is a bunch of junk so imagine downing some Oreos. Junk food! Building strength in these situations would be putting the Oreo or trash talk down and picking up a nice Veggie stick or fresh compliment instead. Now let’s imagine teaming up together. Yes together! And I don’t mean against men. I mean together to unite and uplift and encourage one another!

So in order for us to have GIRL POWER, we must unite and work together! Not give each other a snobby look or judge each other. Love one another by seeing what God sees. We can do this girls! GIRL POWER!