Woman, Align!

A friend and I were discussing and we both began to share the various dealing and breakings of God in our lives. God brings us to various points where all the parts of our lives come together to make the whole us in Christ. What led to this conversation was her blog post on Jael. We got discussing that God puts some roadblocks in our fast paced planned life so we might align with His will as women, wives and mothers.

A post reflection on this kept me wondering if there was any woman in the Bible whose life best reflects the tone of our discussion. I thought of many but still searched for one and honestly, the conclusion is that each of these women in the Bible all served as a part and their coming together makes up the whole woman God seeks that I become or not become.

This is what I mean.

 

Jael: Alignment in the Tent

She lived in a tent. She made tents. She was a housewife, didn’t go anywhere. Her job was at home and she lived far away from the cluster of others, possibly mostly alone to her own thoughts.

What then could be purposeful in such an existence?

Just when the Lord needed a hand to finish up the victory He had orchestrated for Israel, purpose found her just where she was.

She aligned with God inside her tent, while homemaking.

 

 

Leah: From Rejection to Alignment in Praise

I thought next about Leah, the unloved wife. I doubt she ever had Jacob behold her with love in his eyes. Perhaps in their latter years after Racheal the beloved wife’s death. How much she sought for Jacob’s attention and was so unwilling to accept he had no love for her.

She started with Behold a son, then God hears, then ‘reason’ to be Attached, until she saw that her relevance was in God hence she learnt to Praise Him! Then I wondered about her life as to how God used her to raise six pillars for the Lord and from which one bore our Lord Jesus’ lineage!

She aligned when she finally saw no need for the idols of her father, Laban’s house, but the God of Jacob.

 

Naomi and Ruth: Aligning through Suffering into Redemption

I wondered about Naomi. Such a woman who yielded to her husband though he didn’t yield to God and it all landed her in widowhood. Honestly, all hope was lost. She chose to die in her land and accepted returning empty though she left full. Life had dealt her bitterness.

She was old yet she found that her living by the laws of the God of Israel had brought her mercy through the one who wouldn’t let her go, Ruth.

Ruth, the younger widow became her covering. In it all, both women aligned with God leading their lives to redemption. They found contentment in their widowhood, took life a day at a time, and just when it was the darkest, light shone and brought them both Boaz (Strength) and Obed (Worship).

 

Bathsheba: Aligning after Failure

Have you given Bathsheba a thought too? This woman did the unthinkable in Israel and married the one who killed her husband! They had a son and God took his life. To that point she must have been consumed with so much guilt and possibly could not approach the God of Israel.

Those who could do the math must have noted that she was not the virtuous woman deserving to be a wife to the king of Israel. But somehow, she must have aligned with God in the midst of her guilt and receiving comfort from her second husband, she came to her point of wholeness (Solomon).

But God had something in mind: He bestowed her His own friend (Jedidiah).

 

Abigail: Wisdom that Aligns with Purpose

Bathsheba reminds me of Abigail, the woman often described with the wisdom every homebuilder should possess. She points out that should a woman have a ‘foolish Nabal’ for a husband, she is still one who will uphold his dignity and not let the enemy destroy her home.

She had immense wealth at her disposal but she combined it with submission and her second husband could not resist her humility.

She was not driven by the love of money which gave birth to the pride in Nabal.

 

Mary: The Ultimate Alignment in Surrender

If I’d cap it up with one woman in the New Testament we should learn from it definitely would be Mary the mother of our Saviour and Lord, Jesus Christ. What could God have possibly seen in her? This woman had a heart ready to receive God’s instruction and hurry to do His bidding.

I believe all of the women in the Old Testament books of the Bible lead us to this one woman. Mary’s readiness in submitting to God and her admittance of ‘let it be to me as You have said’ is the revelation of the ultimate Biblical woman.

 

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Michal and Others: When Women Refuse to Align

The only point of alignment with God’s plans is when we express our individual readiness to submit to His will. Every woman in the Bible who found use in God’s hands had to have come to the point where she consciously or unconsciously willed herself over to God that He may use her in whatever capacity He deemed fit.

Michal never aligned with David becoming king over her father Saul. She despised David, her first husband in her heart, hence the only woman left barren in Bible history. She chose not to fall in line with God’s move over Israel.

Until Hannah came to the point when she promised to give back what she will be given did God give her Samuel. When she gave Samuel back, He gave her five more children.

Until Sarai accepted the name God gave her, Sarah, did she become the mother of many nations.

Until Esther chose to place her life on the line for the salvation of others, yielding to the call to selflessness, did she prove herself as the ideal queen more beautiful than Vashti.

 

Woman, Align!

 

 

Have you arrived at that point where you will gladly let go of anything and everything including your pride, honour, life, and boldly proclaim before God and say ‘let it be to me as Your heart desires for me’? We all need to think clearly and say it only when we mean it and truly mean it when we do say it.

And there we shall find the secret place where God begins to unfold His eternal purposes through us.

Alignment is never about how visible we are, or how great our strength may be.

It is about yielding to the Divine Hand that shapes destiny.

When a woman aligns, her ordinary becomes the platform for God’s extraordinary.

Her hidden tent, like Jael’s, becomes a battlefield of victory.

Her tears of rejection, like Leah’s, are turned into songs of praise.

Her bitter emptiness, like Naomi’s, becomes the soil where redemption springs forth.

Alignment is the posture of Hannah at Shiloh, pouring out her soul until her womb was opened.

It is the courage of Esther stepping into the throne room uninvited.

It is the surrender of Mary embracing the scandal of virgin birth.

It is the wisdom of Abigail kneeling with bread and wine in her hands.

Each woman’s story whispers the same call: yield, bow, align.

Dear sister, alignment will cost you. It will strip you of self and silence your flesh. It will demand your “yes” when fear screams “no.”

But alignment is also where your true identity is revealed. It is where the barren womb births nations, where the rejected wife births the Lion of Judah, where the despised widow mothers kings.

So today, the Spirit of God is still calling: Woman, align! Align your thoughts, your desires, your home, your marriage, your motherhood, your ministry, your very life, under His sovereign will.

And when you do, you will find that in losing yourself, you have gained Him.

 

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