Virtuous Daughters

Challenge #29

Good morning, dear beloved girls!

How are you all doing this morning? Are you ready to read more? J I know some of these are a bit long, but still pray that they will bless you, as they have me.  I know just rereading them and refreshing my own mind about these things, has been a blessing, to say the least!  It’s always nice, even if we already know or believe something, to just go back and refresh our memory of them.

So…are you ready for question #3? J  I am!

Question #3

“Are we to learn from other sources other than those over us, in other words, our fathers/husbands?”

 This is a question that I have often had before. All I can do is share with you what I have been doing, and why I have been doing it, as I myself, am still learning in regards to this very subject. But, this is what God has been showing me, in regards to learning from other sources.

 Firstly, what I have been doing right now is to try very, very hard to only read material that I believe my father (as I am unmarried at this time) would not have a problem with, and something I know he most likely will agree with. He doesn’t always read everything that I read (as he doesn’t read all that much, besides his Bible), so this is up to me to do.  But, I even wonder about this at times.

 I will caution you right here that I believe this can be dangerous, which is why I often wonder about it, and if you still choose to read ahead of them, you need to be VERY careful with doing this.  We are easily deceived and easily persuaded.  If our fathers/husbands do not read either along with us or before us, and we read something that sounds great, but really isn’t biblical at all, or in fact, is outright falsehood, and we believe it and go with it, how is he now able to protect and guide us? He can’t.  He has no idea what false doctrines that book has placed in your mind.  Whereas, if he reads it with either you, or before you, he knows what it says, can find out if what it says is true, or false, thus still able to protect and guide you. This is also why I no longer read books concerning other doctrines. I try to stick to books on the topics I need to learn about, like child training, keeping a house, biographies that will inspire and help me in my walk with my Saviour etc., but, something that does not go into detail about different doctrines (especially if I know that they will be against what my father is trying to instill in me).

At the same time, if I find things I don’t know about, or things that it is teaching contrary to my father, I will either put the book down (if I know he doesn’t agree with it) or if I am not sure what he thinks about it, I will go to him and say “Dad, I read this, what do you think?” or something to that extent. This way he now has an opportunity to say “Samantha, what they are saying is wrong and this is why…” thus still able to protect me, and yet at the same time he is now able to teach me why it is wrong.

  The same for the preaching tapes, although I think these can be even more dangerous in a way than can be the books.  My father almost always listens to these before us, as it is a lot easier for him to listen to something, than to read a book. Although, now that he works at home and no longer has a drive to work, it is a bit harder for him to do. But still, he almost always listens to them before we do, or we will listen to these as a family. I pretty much only listen to preaching tapes that I know Dad has approved of, or would approve of. And anyone in our family can tell you that Dad has had to stop them more than once, and explain biblically how the pastor and/or teacher, was off in an area, and why. But, had he not been there with us, he would never have been able to protect us from learning a false doctrine.

I pray this helps and encourages you, girls.  I don’t know about you, but different things like these questions, I have had to honestly go through in my own mind and figure out what I was supposed to do, so when I had another mom ask me about them, I knew I wasn’t the only one dealing with such questions.  This is why I now pass this same question and where Yahweh has brought me, on to you, in hopes that it will help you in your own lives.

Not everyone will believe the same way about things, but I hope to atleast challenge you to stop and think about it and what you should do in your own life, as Godly Daughters. Pray about it and search out what Yahweh would want you to do in your own lives.

*July 2010

Girls, I want to challenge you to also think about something else here, that Yahweh has had me pondering on a lot lately.  How much of our wisdom is coming from books, instead of coming from Him and/or His Word? Have you ever thought about that? When we have a question about something, what is our natural course of action? I dare say, atleast in my own life, it is to find a book on the subject and read it.  Yet, is this really what we as believers ought to be doing? Are we not instead, supposed to get on our knees and ask Yahweh? Are we not supposed to dig into His word to find out what His wisdom would be to us? What He thinks about something, what He has to say about something?

Girls, are we not learning what we should be learning, because we aren’t going to Him? Would we learn more if we simply sought out what He has to say about something, instead of someone else? Are we often being lead astray because of this habit? It is something to consider and pray about.

Also, many of the people we tend to learn from, are they Godly themselves? Are they following His word and what His word says? Are we learning from those who aren’t even following Him? And if so, how are they supposed to lead us in the right way? Again, it is something to think about. These are just some thoughts that I have had going through my own mind.

I know recently, Yahweh asked me to write a book on a certain subject. Never, NEVER in my life have I even considered doing this. Yet, He obviously had. I didn’t and don’t feel capable of writing. But, regardless as to what I think or thought I should do, He had given the command, so I knew that I must submit and do it.  Yet, in all of this, do you know what my first inclination was to do? Pick up a book that someone had written on this subject, and read it! What did they have to say about this subject? Maybe I could learn something from them…I was honestly at a loss about how to even proceed in this project. Yet, you know what Yahweh told me? “Don’t you dare pick up a book on that subject!” He wanted and wants me to come to Him, to be willing to learn from HIM, not someone else! This was HIS book, I was just penning it.

But girls, I tell you this because this is exactly what I am getting at. Do we learn from Him? Or do we put others above Him? Which is the way He would want it to be? I dare say that He longs for us to learn from Him.  Pray about it. Be open to listening to His voice, to tuning into what He is trying to say to you.

Yahweh bless!

Samantha