Musings of a Snickerdoodle

Lies Women Believe by Nancy Demoss Wolgemuth is a book that goes through various lies that women believe about reality and counters them.  Dealing specifically with many of the lies women believe about God, themselves, sin, priorities, sexuality, marriage, children, emotions and circumstances, this book is designed as a gentle, but firm exhortation to wake women up to see the truth. I get the impression that many of the women's writings of today cater to women's excuses, unbelief and overall selfishness. We don't need to build up our self-love, "the truth is that we do love ourselves" , we need to learn to deny ourselves.   "Our most common malady is not having a low view [of] ourselves, but having a low view of God." I also loved how the author pointed out that the thought, "I can't help the way I am" because of - fill in the blank-,   is a lie.   She uses Eve as an example: it was not Eve's circumstances that accounted...

"Where there is no “moral gravity” – that is, no force that draws us to the center – there is spiritual weightlessness. We float on feelings that will carry us where we never meant to go; we bubble with emotional experiences that we often take for spiritual ones; and we are puffed up with pride. Instead of seriousness, there is foolishness. Instead of gravity, flippancy. Sentimentality takes the place of theology. Our reference point will never serve to keep our feet on solid rock, for our reference point, until we answer God’s call, is merely ourselves. We cannot possibly tell which end is up. Paul calls them fools who '…measure themselves by themselves, to find in themselves their own standard of comparison!'" - Elisabeth Elliot