"If a young woman was determined to think and act biblically, how would she live?"
She would rediscover God's design for virtuous womanhood for every stage of her life and try to conform her service to God to that plan. Central to that plan is a virtuous heart, a pure mind, the right education, a strong father-daughter relationship, a wisely contracted marriage, and wise, God-fearing descendants.
Too many fathers and daughters build their lives around the wrong questions:
"How can I be popular and successful in the world's eyes?"
"How can I make the most money and conform my priorities to a money-making lifestyle?"
"How can I avoid the stigma of being too 'Christian' or too 'legalistic?'"
"How can I conform myself to the world's way of doing business, doing education, doing family, doing fun stuff, doing marriage, doing children, doing retirement, doing everything?"
The wrong questions lead us in the wrong directions. When we start asking the right questions and being to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, the things of the world no longer enslave us by begin to present themselves to us as tools we might appropriate for our mission in life."
As quoted in "So Much More" by Anna Sophia and Elizabeth Botkin
--Courtney
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