God Likes Women

God Likes Women

If you study the bible, particularly the old testament you will find many references to mighty men of valor, and to the men of God. Then if you look a little more you will find hidden amongst all of these men, a hand full of women that God used to bring about his will. These women were not usually in a place of prestige and often were given less than a chapter in the bible as reference to what they did. However if you will study these instances where God used a woman you will come to the conclusion that God likes women. Not God loves women, but God likes women.

You see, God is love, so of course God loves you: but God likes you. He does not bless you just because he is bound by his love and his word, he will sometimes bless you just because he likes you. God likes you with all of your faults, and your pet peeves, and your intricacies. He may even put you through a hard time so that you can be the example of his favor and what it will mean in your life. However, I’m not talking about God liking particular women, I’m talking about God liking women in general. For example did you know that in the book of Judges there are three women that saved Israel and turned the tide of battle? Not only that but those three women are within the first ten chapters of the book. Talk about being in a place of honor, God must have really liked these women. 

The first was Deborah, she is mentioned in Judges chapter four. This woman was no normal woman, she had a husband to tend to, counseling the people of Israel, she prophesied and she went to war. She was the only female judge in Israel, but she came in like a force of nature, and defeated the enemy. Deborah is proof that God likes women, if God did not like women then he could have gotten a man to do the work. There is no written reason that Deborah was chosen to be the judge of Israel, only an indication that God liked her.

The second woman was Jael, she was the woman that God decided would get the honor of killing an enemy of Israel. Jael came to that place because Deborah the judge prophesied saying that the enemy of Israel would die at the hands of a woman. This woman was nothing special, there was no reason that God gave her the time, and place to kill Israel’s enemy. Jael was not a Israelite, she was married to a man from the wrong side of town, and yet she is the one God chose. The only reason I can think of is that God liked her, I think God liked her a lot. When all was said and done, Jael was given honor and respect due to a hero, She still has hero status in Israel thousands of years later. Not only that, but God gave her what could be the strangest way to kill a man. 

The third woman is unknown, not because of what she did, but because we don’t know her name. However this woman is mentioned not once but twice in the bible. We do not know her name, race, lineage, or who she married, we know virtually nothing about this woman except that she killed Abimelech. Not only did she kill the guy, but she did it by dropping a mill stone on his head. God chose this woman to defeat Abimelech because it was a slight toward him to killed by a woman, not just any woman either, a nameless woman. In fact Abimelech tried to hide that he was killed by a woman by having his armor bearer stab him as he died. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out for him, because the prophet Samuel writes about it later in one of his books.

 As you can see God likes women. In fact God likes women so much you can find examples throughout the Bible. God uses women in extraordinary ways, to confound the enemies of his people, to bring about change in government, and in other ways too numerous to list. If you are looking, you will find that there are many women that influence major events in the bible but have little or nothing written about them. The challenge is to find the references to these women when they are buried amongst the stories of men and their valor and cunning.