Monday, April 5, 2010

More on womanhood

Becoming God's True Woman is still good:) But I've also been listening to some other things including the following talks by Voddie Baucham. The funny thing is Ian says that Voddie is probably more conservative than we are spiritually, but I really like him!
One thing I really like in his talk is what he says about love. I included the section of the youtube videos of his that talks about love. He defines love as an act of the will, a choice. He says that the world views love as an emotion. I have seen this all around me, but I find no biblical basis for it. I also don't see love working out too well for people who believe it is an emotion. I think his definition is completely biblical. Although, I like to say that love is a person. God is love. But Jesus came to show us who God is, and Jesus shows us very clearly that love is a choice or an act of the will. He chooses to love us, he clearly doesn't love us for his own benefit! What hard creatures we are to love!
My friend Sheila has a very good analogy for Jesus' act of love toward us. She said that if she became a dog, it would be much easier for her to relate to her dog (and also tell him to stop eating rocks). Consider the difference between Dogs and people. How frustrating would it be to become a dog when you already know what it's like to be a human?!? Well, Jesus essentially did the same thing. He is God, yet he became human as an act of love for us. Awesome.
Here is the video from Voddie. If you are a woman you should watch the whole series! Men should watch too, but it's seriously great stuff about womanhood.

1 comment:

Steph said...

Thanks for sharing this, Megan! I'm looking forward to watching the rest.