My go-to sermon whenever I feel lost, hurt or unable to move on is Girl, Get Up by Sarah Jakes Roberts. So, when she released her book, Woman Evolve, I wanted to read it- to know more.
With this book, she focuses on the one woman in the Bible, who is accredited for the fall of man-and generally most unappreciated: EVE.
From the very first chapter of this book, I found myself, like the author, having a new perspective of Eve-of a woman who made a mistake, one so grave that a proclamation was made on her womb- and who had to pick up after the fall…and it happens whenever I make a mistake too, I ask myself “what next?”
In asking the question, “How do I grow from here?”, this book is encouraging in helping you face your fears, flaws and opportunities and all the while preserving your connection with God. So, here are my top ten take-aways from this awesome book:
- Just because you’ve survived something doesn’t mean you didn’t experience damage.
- What question haunts you?
- It is not wise to compare or minimize our pain because it doesn’t feel significant compared to that of others.
- Stop presenting your truth, feelings, and emotions and then dismissing them with “I don’t know.”
- When what is ahead of you is greater than what is behind you, you can walk away from that which no longer serves.
- Who will I have to become in order to pursue this opportunity? Does it lead me closer or further away from God?
- You may be waiting on a harvest for all that you’ve sown, but you are God’s harvest and He won’t let you stay in the ground.
- How does this new perspective change the way you engage in your world?
- Where you are right now may not be connected to where you will land, but where you are right now will serve you when you get to where you are headed.
- Don’t ever let someone make you feel so uncomfortable with your little in comparison to their ability that you cease to remember your little is more than enough for you.
There are phenomenal women in the Bible as there are men, and I find most of the stories interesting- like being swallowed by a fish, or getting fed by ravens or fleeing from the threats of a Queen and reading this was applying the lessons on growth, fear, and seeking purpose by getting to have a new perspective on Eve’s story.
The next book I’m reading is Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson.
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