Our Response to the X Outburst about Single Women

The Peg and the Pen: "Penning words in order to shape culture and to train women to hammer with a peg the tyrants that the Lord has placed in their path of obedience."

Our response to the X outburst about Single women.

The original clip from Ligoneer: https://x.com/Ligonier/status/2062127417389429032

The responses to the clip: https://x.com/i/trending/2062238691775373348?timeline=VGltZWxpbmU6CgCaHJ6LKflWYCQA

This article was originally published in Issue Two of The Keeping the Citadel Magazine.

“How Single Women Can Live A Better Story”

Single Christian women today are fighting a battle on multiple fronts. On the one side, they are being bombarded by the lies of the feminists telling them to find themselves and seek fulfillment by choosing a path that will be self-serving; and on the other, certain Christians are voicing more lies stating that single women can never truly be productive or honoring to the Lord unless they are married, even going so far as to say that they are sinning if they are not married by a certain age. Both sides not only have caused a serious halt to the work that single women could be doing for God’s kingdom, but they also shape young women who image lies about the Lord that these women should be serving. These lies produce discontent, envious, selfish women who are constantly looking for something better around the next corner rather than being fruitful where they are and with what they have been given. Single women, alongside their fellow Christians, are supposed to be reflections of the Greatest Story ever written, but how can we reflect the Greatest Story when we are being pounded with so many falsehoods about Who we reflect and how we should reflect Him and the mission that He has given us?

What do we know about God? He is Good! He is Just! He is Faithful, Kind, Creative, Merciful, Sovereign, Abounding in Steadfast Love, Omnipresent, and Omniscient. These are just a very few of the qualities that describe our Lord, but it is important to understand these qualities because the lies that are being launched at single women call into question the character of our Lord. Both sets of lies are indicating, whether the parties realize it or not, that somehow God made a mistake. Surely, when God created woman to be a helper to her husband, when He gave her the wonderful ability to be a home to an immortal soul and then bring that soul into this world, when He gave her as an amplifier to her husband to aid him in taking dominion of this

world, this could not be the “meaningless” work that that God called her to do. The “mistake” on the other side is one which calls God’s sovereignty, omniscience, steadfast love, and perfection into question. If it is true that single women cannot be truly fruitful until they are married, then God either forgot about all of these single women and left them in this season of fruitless living or He has maliciously planned that these women will live seasons in which they are sinning by not being married.

Why even bring these lies up? Because the lies are proclaiming falsehoods about God, and single women around our nation are in some sense believing them; and by believing in these lies about God, single Christian women now have no clue what mission they are supposed to be living out because they don’t understand the love, grace, and mercy of the God Who gave the mission to them.

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show us the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus...For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2: 4-6, 10).

We are the workmanship of the King of Kings. He not only by His grace redeemed us, but He redeemed us to something: good works. Good works that he has prepared beforehand and specifically for each person. Good works that are excellent and profitable (Titus 3:8); good works that we are to be devoted to so that we are not unfruitful (Titus 3:14). Good works that we are to be full of because Jesus “gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works.” (Titus 2:14) This is our mission.

This is our mission because good works are what Jesus modeled. This is our mission because our God is accomplishing good works each and every day. This is our mission because good works are what the Holy Spirit is doing in and through you each and every day through the saving blood of Jesus, if you are a Christian. Good works are how you reflect the Greatest Story. Good works in Christians proclaim the gospel, because we once were dead and now we have been made alive and created in Christ for good works. Single Christian women, this is your mission; and understanding this mission enables you to be fruitful in every season of your life.

Therefore, be rich in good works now! Be fruitful now! Be every day sowing seeds of faithfulness and obedience that will bear good fruit in a marriage one day. Proclaim the gospel through your joyful obedience, through your joyful service to others, and ultimately by laying your life down for others as Christ did for His church. These good works build; these good works help and encourage the church; and these good works fulfill the Great Commission. Because by loving the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, and might (Deut. 6:5), and loving our neighbors as ourselves (Matt. 22:39), we will live on mission to spread the gospel to the world around us both in our good works and in directly sharing the gospel. And these marching orders are Not limited to married women only. These marching orders are for All Christians Everywhere.

These good works cannot be laid out specifically for each of you because we all have been given a very specific part in the story that cannot be replicated. We all have different lines, settings, and props that we are to use to take dominion of the area we have been given. But, we all have the same Sovereign Director Who orchestrated every scene that you have been or ever will be a part of. So pray to Him. Look to Him. Ask Him to enlarge your boundaries, or ask Him to give you wisdom to accomplish all that you already have to do. Don’t wait around lazily, and discontentedly until something “exciting” happens. You get to perform every day on the stage of Lord of the universe. How are you going to use your moments? I pray that we all use our moments to expand the Kingdom. “Let us consider how to stir one another to love and good works.”(Hebrews 10:24) “‘Let us rise up and build.’ So they strengthened their hand for the good work.”(Nehemiah 2:18)

By Lydia Edmonds