[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Jane Anderson in A Woman of Chayil

I did not write the book, A Woman of Chayil, seeking some kind of restitution for all that women have suffered. Nor did I write it with the hope of extracting some kind of admission and repentance from men who have hurt women.

I wrote it to help both men and women alike turn their eyes upon Jesus and see Him as He really is: See Him on the cross, dying to save us and set us free from sin and death; see Him resurrected in the garden, testifying that God's love for us is stronger than death; see Him interceding for us on the throne, praying that God's will be done in our lives; see Him patiently coming to us by His Spirit, again and again, seeking to draw us back to Himself.

In eternity's brilliant light - where all things will be finished, where everything will be manifest and seen as it really is, where there will be no darkness at all - we will rejoice forever in Him! If I sound a bit too joyful this side of that glorious day, how can I be otherwise? Faithful is He who began a good work in us that He will surely finish!

I think "The Thread Of Gold" should be "required reading" for anyone serious about discussing the matters covered in A Woman Chayil. Why? Because without the background of Jane's intensely personal experience, the fruit of which is so vividly described in the subtitle of TToG: "God's Purpose, the Cross, and Me", it may be hard for people, especially men, to fully grasp and appreciate what our sister is bringing forth in A Woman of Chayil.

For the brothers having a hard time with some of the issues Jane is addressing in this book, I have presented the above quote for your consideration. Many of the issues Jane addresses are actually a continuation of her experience with "God's purpose, the cross and me". In the Local Church we were taught that God's purpose was to "build the church", a seemingly noble and biblical concept. The problem was that many of Witness Lee's teachings led us to believe that the church, or I should say, the building of the church, was something different and/or apart from what he purposes for our individual lives as flesh and blood creatures created in His image and likeness.

Surely "the good work" that God has began in us is not simply to build some race of super Christians, or to gather an association of churches full of people that "understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so as to remove mountains" (1Cor13:2), but lack the most basic respect and compassion for our fellow creatures created by the very same God, and made up of the very same flesh and blood. Brothers, how much more for those to whom we are "co-heirs of the grace of life"?(1Pet3:7)
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****************************BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP - - - THIS IS A TEST - THIS WAS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY SYSTEM TO TUG AT THE HEARTSTRINGS OF ANY BROTHER WHO HAS A HEART OF FLESH. THIS WAS ONLY A TEST - YOU CAN NOW RETURN TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED ROUTINE OF MISUNDERSTANDING ON PURPOSE, THINKING ANY SISTER THAT HAS SOMETHING FROM GOD AND HIS WORD IS OUT OF PLACE, AND JUST BEING GENERALLY BULL-HEADED AND HOSTILE TO OUR FELLOW HEIRS OF THE GRACE OF LIFE. - - - BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP - - - -THIS WAS ONLY A TEST*************************************

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