WOMEN OUT OF GOD'S WILL

 WOMEN OUT OF GOD’S WILL

BY DR. MERVYN ABREO

           Different women related to God differently – with varying results.

Eve tried to become like God:

           Tempted by Satan, she scrumbled to his lies and ate the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And also gave some to her husband, Adam.

          The results were disastrous! And we her children are still paying for it.

Sarah tried to help God:

           Impatient that she had not conceived a son and heir from her husband Abraham, although promised by God, she sent her slave girl Hagar into his bed, resulting in the birth of Ishmael.

          The enmity between Isaac and Ishmael, which had its roots then, is still continued by their descendants till the present day.

Rebekah tried to fool God:

  

          When her old and dying husband Isaac requested his elder son Esau to hunt game, cook it and bring it to him, so that he could bless him with an inheritance, Rebekah quickly prepared a meal and made Jacob, Esau’s younger brother to impersonate him and steal his elder brother’s birthright.

          The results were disastrous for both Jacob as well as for Rebecca. Jacob had to flee after the death of Isaac as Esau had vowed to kill him. And Jacob spent more than fourteen years in exile, during which period Rebekah died never once seeing her favorite son after the death of her husband.

Michal scorned God:

 

          When David danced in Jehovah’s sight as the Tabernacle was being brought into the Temple, his wife Michal laughed at him, not realizing that God had forgiven him and now accepted his praise and worship.

          Michal did not realize that her laughter, though directed at David, became a personal insult to God, Who showed His displeasure by keeping her barren all the days of her life, although David forgave her and slept with her. For her own sake, I hope that she had made up with her husband as well as with God before she died.

  

WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD?

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