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Day Six

Created for Relationships

Scripture: Genesis 2:18

God chose to create women to be highly relational beings. The fact that we were created for someone helps us understand our inner desire to connect in a deep and meaningful way. It’s part of who we are. It’s hardwired inside of us. We were created to find satisfaction in deep, meaningful, God-honoring relationships.

Just look around, and you’ll quickly see the results of this relational bent. Have you ever noticed how women often travel in packs (or at least in pairs) to restrooms? Why is that? Because we like being together, no matter where we are. It’s such a female thing. Can you image men doing that? Never.

Many women (like our mom) can get together for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and coffee to chat for hours on end. Women can meet for the first time, and before you know it they are pulling out tissues and crying together. Why? Because women, in general, love connecting relationally.

The bottom line is this: women are relational beings because God designed us to be that way. He wants us first to fill ourselves with Him so that we then go out and share God’s love with others. It doesn’t matter how young or old you are, or whether you’re married or single, every woman in every stage of life has the ability to nurture relationships for God’s glory.

You can nurture relationships wherever God has you right now. You can nurture a relationship with your parent(s). You can nurture a relationship with your sibling(s). You can nurture a relationship with your husband. You can nurture a relationship with your child(ren). You can nurture a relationship with your neighbor(s). Imagine the impact you could have on a young person’s life by choosing to selflessly nurture a relationship with them.

The eighteenth-century American poet William Ross Wallace wrote a famous poem titled “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is the Hand That Rules the World.” Never underestimate the indispensable role of nurturing relationships. Helping others, producing life, and nurturing relationships are the qualities each of us, as women, possess. Lasting fulfillment and authentic worth are found only when we build our lives on God’s design for womanhood.

What is one relationship you could intentionally nurture right now?