CHAPTER 2: PURPOSEFULLY WOMAN The Resolution for Women (New Revised Edition) by Priscilla Shirer
In your role as a mother, if you are, do you feel capable, necessary, and entrusted to fulfill that role? Do you see yourself as an important part of it, and worthy to be involved? How about as a wife, if that applies to you? Or as a sibling, a friend, a co-worker?
Notice where you feel similarities in your experiences across these relationships, and where your feelings differ. How has each relationship shaped the person you are today? Are there ways you could grow or change in how you show up for others? Can you find ways to reflect God more in the way you love, serve, and respect the people around you?
REFLECTION
So many roles can feel challenging, especially when my stubbornness rises up. But as I reflect, I find comfort in knowing that healthy relationships are built on mutual love and respect. They require effort, compassion, and grace from both sides—and God must be at the center.
As I raise my son, I want to show him why women are so special and necessary, and how a woman should be loved and respected. Now, raising a daughter, I see the fire in her spirit, and I have no doubt she will be strong, just like her momma. I am here for her fire, but I also want to model Godly womanhood for her. I want to show her, not just tell her, how a woman cares for her family and manages her responsibilities. I want to demonstrate love, compassion, respect, and responsibility, reflecting God’s love and her inherent value. - Angie
PERSONAL REFLECTION
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed.”
Both man and woman are very good, created side by side to reflect God’s image. Each is equally valuable and worthy. You carry immense purpose and significance in God’s eyes. You are not only good but you are equally necessary in His plan. - Angie
“Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the savior of the body. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the world. His did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, since we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
“I think the call to submission may be often misunderstood. It reflects a spirit of respect and partnership, recognizing the husband as the loving leader of the family. Husbands are called to sacrificial love, care, and protection, creating a safe and nurturing space for their wives, mirroring Christ’s love for the church. Both partners are called to fulfill their roles with love, respect, and mutual commitment.”- Angie