As the calendar reads, March is a Women’s History Month, so for today we would like to talk about women a little more.
We thought about gathering information on the world’s greatest woman inventors, humanitarians, entertainers and entrepreneurs who are influencing today’s world but, the thought grew deeper.
Why not present to you the pioneers? The ideal woman or women history will forever live to tell, the brave women pioneers who didn’t have today’s advantages but still pulled through to the top. This is certainly not an exhaustive list, but here are 3 women we are celebrating this month
Mary, Mother of Jesus
This woman was about the most humble and submissive servants of God mentioned in the Bible. Mary was betrothed or engaged to Joseph. An angel came to Mary saying that she was highly favored by the Lord and that the Lord was with her (Luke 1:28). Who among us would not be terrified at this? Mary was no exception (Luke 1:29) but the angel told her that she had found favor with God (Luke 1:30).
What was Mary’s response? She said, “I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38). The word for “servant” is literally bondservant or slave. Mary’s humility was astonishing and is a great example for all Christians and believers should aspire to be in all things as she was as she said, “let it be to me according to your word.”
Queen Esther
Esther is another sterling example of faith but also one of courage. She was queen to King Ahasuerus because the king loved Esther more than any other woman (Esther 2:17).
When her nation Israel was in jeopardy of being wiped out (Esther 3:13), Mordecai told Esther “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this” (Esther 4:13-14)? After the entire nation fasted, Esther said that “I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:16).
Queen Esther risked her life when she went before King Ahasuerus because if he did not put out the scepter, then she would have surely died but we know that by Esther’s bravery, the Jews were saved.
Rahab the Brave
Rahab may have been as brave as Esther. She risked her life to hide the spies sent into Jericho by Joshua as “she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof” (Joshua 2:6).
If these men had been discovered, it would have been certain death for Rahab but she had heard about Israel and something deep inside her must have realized that the God of Israel was a true God for she said that “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. Joshua 2:9-11).
Rahab is one of the few heroines of the Bible mentioned in what is called the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11 saying about her that is was “By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient” (Heb 11:31) (Joshua 6:25). So Rahab’s faith saved her and her father’s entire household. Your faith can do something for your family and country today.
You could have likely chosen different women of the Bible than we did.
Make a comment and add one of your own favorite women of the Bible and tell us the reason why they are among your favorites. Perhaps it was Israel‘s only woman judge, Deborah. I would love to know more about these godly women of faith in the Bible. These women will shine for all eternity for their faithfulness and even today, happy International Women’s day.
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aaron@ugchristiannews.com/Photo(Courtesy) – Scene 07/18 – Exterior Galilee House; The last of the crowd mill around with the disciples watching.
