Our daughters

👩 OUR DAUGHTERS 👩

Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, repaired the next section with the help of his daughters.

Nehemiah 3:12

 Shallum was ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem. That must make him a very powerful and a wealthy person. But what makes him special? He built the wall with his daughters! Building the wall is not an easy task. But he made his daughters involved in it. Either the girls had the desire or Shallum called them to participate. But he did not act as a stumbling block. He allowed them to serve the Lord.

My father was like Shallum while my mother was very protective.

I wanted to learn cooking but my mother feared that I would get hurt After I got married, I had to learn cooking from scratch. My father would teach the Bible while my Mother stood there anxiously thinking, “Oh! My daughter!”.

Today, are we being over protective or are we training our daughters to spread the light of God?

👩 our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Psalms 144:12👩

Our daughters are compared to carved pillars. The more the carving, the more the beauty. We must not fear that the pillar will experience pain during the carving. We must keep on carving. A pillar will support a building. In the same way, our daughters must be pillars of the family.

Today, let us learn to be like Shallum. He trained his daughters to serve the Lord. They are a part of the Bible! We talk about them today! 

Are we carving our daughters in the way they should be carved or are we protecting them and hindering them from serving the Lord?