Anything you can do, I can do better!!

Anything you can do,
I can do better.
I can do anything
Better than you!

I always liked being a girl. I also liked coming in first place, and I liked coming in first place as a girl. In high school I played more than my share of pranks, and I enjoyed never even being suspected because I was a good girl. As a girl I enjoyed winning back-to-back championships; don't even ask how bad the boys' basketball team was. In college I was a Criminal Justice major, which meant that as a girl, I was in a teeny-tiny minority. I enjoyed listening to a hundred beefy guys all around me brag on themselves for four years, knowing full well my private intention of graduating first in the class. And I did. In high heels. Anything you can do, I can do better.

Jesus said, "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing."

The modern feminist movement wants us to enjoy and exploit our cleverness. We are supposed to think and act in a way that shows our ability to, as girls, out-smart, out-run, out-work, out-hustle the guys, and to do it all with ease, grinding their faces into the dirt with our Italian pink silk high heels.

The truth is, that is all disgusting pride. God designed us as women to share certain characteristics and traits, which is a good and appropriate thing. But before we start excusing our feminist behavior as natural, let's investigate to the motives beneath our behavior. Does self-sufficient pride lead to conceit and vanity? Does pride lead to a general belief in the incompetency of man? Does pride lead to a loud, abrasive, "I can do anything better than you! Yes, I can, YES, I CAN!!"

Our big pile of accomplishments, carefully and lovingly and angrily accumulated in our own cleverness and wiles, is our own indictment. And the judgment? "If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned."

Ladies, some of us, and I'm the biggest one here, have inner-feminists. This isn't the holy fruit that God intends us to bear; it's the result of carefully-nurtured pride. Left to ourselves, we will bring forth pride and conceit and vanity and death. The only solution is to look to Jesus: "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me."

May God gives us much grace and enable us to bring forth much fruit and prove to be His disciples, women who intentionally and perseveringly live according to HIS design! (John 15:1-8)