I’ve lived in Antigua for nearly a MONTH (wowzer), which means that we have begun to adapt to what life is like in Guatemala… But there’s something unsettling here that I just cannot get used to…
At home I am not the women who walks into a room and has jaws instantly dropped. I am not the person who has eyes follow her. Nor do I have men flocking around me every time I go anywhere. I am not whistled at. I am not asked out. And for the first time ever I sit here and say thank you God, because for the first time ever this happens to me and the women on my team everyday. From the moment we step outside of the walls of our home to the moment we step back in at the end of the day, we are stared at and we are made ITEMS. It sickens me to think that women can be whistled at and enjoy it. Don’t get me wrong I turn my head at the sound of a whistling man just because it grabs my attention and then yet again I am reminded that I am not a dog. Let’s be honest if the Father whistled at us to get us to love Him, no one would follow Him. If He sat on a street corner and called me “sexy” “hot” or the b word I could never turn around and say that is an honest man that I want to follow! Why? Because I am worth so much more than being placed in to the object section of a mans mind.
In a way I have struggled with being fine with being called any of the above things. I was okay with being an object as long as someone would please look at me. “God please can I just have a boyfriend.”-I would beg. “Lord can my husband please come faster.” -I would cry. Now that my worth is found in the things that Jesus calls me, I realize that…
I am beautiful.
I am enough.
I am worthy of love and affection.
I deserve to be pursued.
I am called a daughter of the King!
And so are you!!!
Women, right now the Lord is freeing you from needing a man. He is freeing you from ever being an item and He is asking you to find your worth in Him!! He is asking you to respect yourself and search for men of courage and to treat them with respect.
Men, right now He is asking you to become men of courage. He is asking you to find your worth in Him. He is begging you to love like He loves!
