Prostitutes R Us!

I’ve been reading “The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord” by T.D. Jakes. It’s pretty interesting. There is a paragraph in there that says,

“The lady is a fertile field. Her tender heart is softly turned soil that awaits the seed. She carries the potential of massive reproduction. Her mind is the incubator of dreams and the womb of greatness. She is irrigated when in love and dehydrated when hurt. She is enriched by those who lover her and stripped by those who abuse her. Those whom she touches will dine on her harvest. She will be the end of someone’s famine. She is a garden. She is the place where hunger is sated. She is the place where hungers will be quenched. She is the place where rich soil will produce fertile food and lives are richer because of her. She is a garden. She is the focal point of those who love her and the absolute envy of those who don’t.”

This paragraph described me to a T. And hopefully you found traces of yourself in it. We as women are wonderful, strong, beautiful beings that God created. Our hearts are indeed tender. We feel things that men don’t feel. We see things that men don’t see. We have discernment in areas that men don’t. We are helpers. We are counselors. We are mothers, sisters, and friends. We are ladies. We are precious.

Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of what we are and what God created us to be. And because we’ve lost sight of that, we allow ourselves to be demeaned. Abused. Mistreated. Cheated. Degraded. We have become merely objects. We don’t help anymore. We don’t stand strong as women of God. We parade around in hopes of winning a man’s heart with our skimpy clothing, weave, slick talk, sexy dance moves, and tricks in the bed.

Don’t you see that you’re more than this? What I just described was a prostitute!! They stand on the street wearing next to nothing with over done hair and make-up making lewd sexual statements while moving their bodies in ways that attract a lustful man. Why act like a prostitute? We are prized possessions. A man should feel like he has the rarest gem when he finds us. He won’t want to let us go. He’ll treat us with respect and only want the best for us. Of course, you have to learn who to say yes to and who to say no to. But that’s another topic.

All in all, we need to get back to God’s intended purpose for our lives. We weren’t created to be on T.V. shaking what our mommas gave us for the world to see. We weren’t created to fight over some no good man. We weren’t created to sleep around with anything and everyone. We weren't created to be hard, cold women who have been hurt by the world.

With God, you can release the demons from your past. You can move on. You can realize your purpose and full potential. But you have to want it. Study your Bible. Meditate on His word. Develop a relationship with God. And that’s all I really have to say! :)