Women.

                                          I think it says much that God chose for Jesus to be born of a woman, rather than created like Adam had been. 

                                     I understand that it needed to happen that way for the prophesies to come true, but the thing that really seems surprising is that He was born and under the authority of a teenaged girl, for a large section of His life.

                                Mary was important. She held Jesus and changed Him, bathed Him and taught Him how to walk and talk; she was his mom.

                            If anyone doubts the importance of Christian women, perhaps the first place they should look is there...

                                           I love Mary Magdalene.

                   Unclean and full of demons that Jesus exorcized, she became a testimony of unyielding Faith, never doubting, never denying and never abandoning Jesus, alive or dead.

                        In this, she humbled the men He had specifically picked to follow Him.

                 Of course He chose to heal her, knowing every footstep she would eventually take.

                         If anyone doubts that women can be just as faithful as any man, here may be a good place to visit. He spoke His First words to her and appeared  to this simple woman before any man that He had chosen. He sent her to tell His great news first...

                               And none of the men initially believed her...

                                     Just as Jesus knew would happen...

                       I was listening to Charles Stanley preach about the woman at the well. I have always liked that story, but it seems I had missed much, in it's meanings.

                    Jesus spoke to her, a Samaritan woman who had five husbands and was living adulterously with another man, as they talked.

                      She came at an odd time, to avoid the other women who gossiped about her and judged her. She was nothing, a sinful pariah to be insulted and ignored.

                                           Gods only Son spoke to her.

                              Think about that. Not an earthly king. Gods perfect Son.

                No degradation, but a simple offer of water that will never let her thirst again.

                       She received it and left her bottle. I thought that was how the story ended...

                                   But she ran and told those who despised her about The Messiah and they saw the change in her. They went to Him and many were saved.

                              How strange that these two women who brought His most precious news, were willing to face the disbelief and doubt of those who received them, and were the least of the least, in the circles of men.

                                    But they were personally chosen by The Son of God...

                                        

                                                         Just as we all have been...