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Blessings of Womanhood
By Quin Kehler

In our society today, women are stepping down from their God-given role. What is our role as women? What are the blessings of womanhood?
In Genesis 1:26-27, God created us in His own image. He created a woman for Adam in Genesis 2:21-22 to be a companion and a help to him in meeting his needs as a man. Adam needed Eve to help him take care of the garden and made his job more pleasant by being his wife. I can imagine them laughing and talking in the garden with God everyday. Before the fall of man, they had perfect communion. Sin disoriented our position. Eve doubted God and disobeyed His law by eating the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 3:1-7). With our blessings of womanhood came the consequences of sin. We were blessed by God when we were created (Genesis 1:28). The Psalmist in Psalm 139:14 says, “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.”
The first blessing we have as a woman is childbirth. God says in Genesis 3:16, “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” The law of abortion in Canada was passed by Pierre Trudeau in 1969 and in 2010, there were 64,641 abortions. Sadly, these mothers were not aware how precious the little souls are to God. They are a gift from Him to us who are parents. “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward” Psalm 127:3.
Secondly, the Bible talks a lot about the structure of the home: the blessings of being a wife, and a homemaker. The second part of the verse in Genesis 3:16 says, “and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” Marriage is a gift from God (1 Cor. 7:38). God constituted the first marriage (Gen. 2:24; Mark 10:6-9). Our husbands are given leadership in the home by God. God knew we could not handle that responsibility. He said in Ephesians 5:22-23, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.” 
We see women today running their homes instead of the husband; taking their leadership role, working and providing for the family. This ought not be so. God did not intend for women to go in the workforce. Titus 2:4-5 mentions that women should love and obey their husband, and love their children, and also be homemakers.
Singleness is also a gift from God (1 Cor. 7:7-8). Single women can pursue a career without distractions of family life, such as, how to please their husband (1 Cor. 7:34).The next blessing of being a woman is our attire. We show the world who we are by what we wear on our body and face (1 Tim. 2:9). The world in which we live in make us believe that beauty and fashion is everything. In God's foreknowledge, He gives us a glimpse of the virtuous woman in Proverbs 31:10-31 for our example. She is a beautiful godly, wise, and strong woman. She was both blessed by God and her family (Prob. 31:28-29). Her attire showed royalty, strength and honour.
Proverbs 31:17 “She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.”
Proverbs 31:22 “She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.”
Proverbs 31:25 “Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
It is an abomination for women to dress in man's clothing and vise versa. “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God” Deuteronomy 22:5. Can the world clearly see you are a woman by how you dress? 
I had a co-worker where I used to work, told me she dislikes men because they kept eyeing her so, she cut her hair short and dressed like a man. God made us distinctly unique and different from men for a purpose. Our long hair glorifies us as women (1 Cor. 11:14-15). The virtuous woman delights in her God-given role. She knew plastering herself with the world's fashion is vain; but God praises her because she fears Him (Prob. 31:30).
We need to step up to our God-given role, not hide from it and, let the world know that the blessings of womanhood are not grievous (1 John 5:3) but a privilege.