So far this week we have met two types of women: girlie women and girlie girls. The video at the start of the week gave us a great example of what I call girlie girls. These are women who like to play stupid. They do the coy dumb blonde thing. They make people think that girls really are the weaker sex.
I blogged about being girlie, which I see as accepting your feminine side. It is the pretty side of you. It in no way means you need to play stupid. In fact, it means quite the opposite.
We see these two types of women in the story of Esther. She is so cool she has her own book! Esther was girlie! She was beautiful and loved girlie things. Her girlie side won her the heart of a king. The Bible tells us that she was lovely. That word is girlie! I want to be lovely, don’t you? Sorry I got carried away there. Esther spent 12 months having beauty treatments to prepare her to meet the king. Can you get more girlie? Her girliness “won the favor of everyone who saw her.” (Esther 2:15)
But Esther was also smart. A smart girlie, just like you! Her guardian, Mordecai, instructed her not to tell anyone that she was a Jew. Esther was smart enough to keep that secret. Esther quickly became an invaluable advisor to her husband. Unfortunately, the king was tricked into signing an order to kill all the Jews in the land. This put Esther in a very difficult predicament. The king didn’t know that he signed his wife’s death warrant. Could Esther “have come to a royal position for a time such as this?” (Esther 4:14) Our smart girlie, Esther, did a very smart thing. She asked her fellow Jews to pray and fast for her BEFORE she went to the king. Oh, if I only remembered to pray BEFORE I did something!
Esther resolved to approach the king. “And if I perish, I perish.” (Esther 4:16) That doesn’t sound like a damsel in distress, girlie girl to me. She convinced the king to not only save her and Mordecai but also all the Jews in the kingdom. Our girlie, Esther, has a Jewish feast in her honor to this day, Purim. Purim is meant to celebrate the day when the Jews “sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration.” (Esther 9:22)
Esther made girlie work. I want to too. How about you?
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