Rough Girls
Rough Girls Turned Redeemed
This one's for the rough girls...
The ones who've walked a lonely, dark road with a lot of lost, hurt people but caught a glimpse of His light and ran full speed towards it.
You sit in church and hear stories of Ruth and Abigail, Hannah and Mary the mother of Jesus and you try desperately to identify with these great women of faith but it's like trying to slip on Cinderella's glass slipper and you aren't the princess type.
This one's for you...
To the woman who used her beauty to establish her riches but her brains to gain her freedom...
Look up Rahab (Joshua 2)
To the party girl who used to climb atop tables and scream, "Get naked!" when she's had a little too much to drink but now sits humbly at His feet...
Look up Mary Magdalene (Luke 8:1-3)
To the woman who's body has been held by many boys and her heart broken by a few men but found healing through Him...
Look up the Samaritan woman (John 4:4-26)
To the mother that wore that shameful scarlet letter but now has been washed white as snow...
Look up Bathsheba (Proverbs 31) [written by her son]
I used to chastise myself because I couldn't blush, wasn't soft spoken, and didn't follow orders quick or well enough.
I used to pray prayers like...
"Help me to be a good wife like ___."
"Help me to be as submissive as___."
"I'm sorry I'm so loud."
"Make me unattractive to everyone except my husband."
And while those prayers weren't wrong they were prayed with the wrong heart...
I didn't pray them because I loved God, I prayed them because I hated me.
It wasn't until I began to see myself as ABBA does that the heart behind the prayers and the prayers themselves changed...
To all the rough girls turned redeemed with the broken angel wings...
You were never meant to have your head in the clouds; there's no one in need of saving there.
You know heartache and struggle.
Addiction and abuse.
Darkness and rejection.
So ABBA make us brave and loud as Deborah, cunning and powerful as Jael, fearless and wise as Priscilla, controversial as the daughters of Zelophead, courageous as Esther, intelligent as Miriam, and as bold as the daughters of Phillip. Forgive us for the times we have hated how You fearfully and wonderfully created our personalities and bodies. Use us and our stories ABBA. Let none of the hurt be wasted but let it be the bridge that brings healing for many. Selah.