Rebekah
Rejecting Stereotypes -
Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

- Day 6 -

Beautiful Sister, I hope your heart is feeling lighter today about who you are, who you can become......let's cotinue to look to the "Original Source" and His Word.

Do you remember how God talked with Adam and Eve in the garden?  God created them to have a relationship with Him.  All through the Old Testament you will read "God said" or "the Lord said."  We were created to have conversation with God and because He made each one of us differently He wants to have a unique relationship with us.

As we read the story of Rebekah we see why God made her.  To give water to a servant with 10 camels; to go to another country and become Isaac's wife; to give birth to two sons;  one of them, Jacob, had many son and is in the geneology of Christ; the other, Esau, was the father of another nation.  She was made to be part of God's plan.

Later God speaks to Jeremiah and says, "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."  Jeremiah 29:11.  In Ephesians 2:10 we read, "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

Have to ever wanted to be part of a planning process?  party planning?  program planning?  school planning?  Well guess what?  God has a plan!  And you have the priviledge of being included in it!

 

Me? A Mona Lisa?

Now look back at the first part of Ephesians 2:10, "For we are God's workmanship..." The word workmanship comes from a Greek word meaning, "work of art".  We are works of art!  Let's make this verse even more personal by removing the word "we" and replacing it with your first name.  Go ahead, say it out loud: "For __________ is God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." 

PRAY  Heavenly Father, I am willing to give up the stereotypes of my culture.  I want to become a woman of God to do your will and inspire other woman to do the same.

SHARE  How does God show you His love in your day to day life?