Grow Up Daughter of Eve
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Give thought to the woman you want to be tomorrow, a year from now, five years from now, and so on and practice today becoming her.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Set aside silliness and learn what joy and contentment look like. It’s the difference between cotton candy and a four course meal. Only one of those will nourish your soul.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Forsake foolishness and pursue wisdom, she is indeed your sister. Wisdom will keep you safe from the damaging effects of bad decisions and foolish choices.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Reject the world’s idea of beauty and find out what God says is beautiful and be that. It’s two very different things, one of which fades and becomes less and less and one that becomes more glorious over time.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Don’t mistake sarcasm for wit. Let your words be apples of gold in settings of silver. Relying on sarcasm all the time only makes you dull and unkind.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Be willing to slow down and wait for the right things at the right time. Your enjoyment and pleasure in good things is directly connected to your maturity and ability to appreciate it.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Put aside doing only the easy things and choose the hard things. It will make you strong and able to handle with grace and dignity the difficult things that come to us all in life.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Put away laziness. Laziness will ultimately create more work for yourself and will also cause much dissension with those around you who are adversely affected by your idleness.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Learn to not take yourself too seriously. It will make you much more pleasant to be around if you are able to laugh at yourself.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Value the things and people that have come before you. Nothing that is now existed without the help and assistance of the past.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Embrace the truth that while everything is lawful not everything is needful. Just because you can does not mean you should.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Own your sin and mistakes. It is not always someone else’s fault. Remember that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Be quick to forgive and always assume the best of others. Don’t expect something from others that you are unwilling to give.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Choose to love others more than yourself. A self-centered person exhausts those around them rather than being a source of comfort and rest.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
Seek knowledge more than entertainment. There is untold value in feeding your soul.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
For in this way you may be an example to others in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.
Grow up, daughter of Eve.
For you are called to be a polished corner stone cut for the structure of the palace, made to be a pillar that will support and uplift the house that God is building for His name out of living stones.
