not just bodies
In a month when a woman’s identity is being reduced to the value her body can produce sexually, either through exploitation - see World Cup statistics as an example - or it through a limited view of motherhood - even/especially in the church - it stands out to read a hermenuetically-solid, culturally relevant reading of the model for womanhood held out in Proverbs 31, from Jon Ball on the Eternal Learner blog.
…how those are lived out and the fruits of those today will look quite different than in the Jewish culture. Then a woman’s success largely reflected on her husband, and he was honored in the community. Nowadays that is much less the case.
Today it is common and often acceptable for women to neglect their families for the sake of career, which has been common for men for at least the past century. Godly parents, in contrast, will not sacrifice children to the gods of the culture.
In their culture, they literally sacrificed their children to Molech, by burning them to death. In our culture, the gods that we may sacrifice our children to include education, money, and status. I think the challenge in our culture is even stronger for men because men have been applauded for workaholism and neglecting everything for career, but women are more susceptible to this temptation today than ever before.
Read the whole post - “That Amazing Woman” - here.