DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 7 March 2025: Celebrating Womanhood
Text: Judges 13:15-25 (KJV)
15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid* for thee.
16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret*?
19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
KEY VERSE: Judges 13:23
“But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.”
When the United Nations first marked International Women’s Day on March 8, 1975, and made it an annual event, humanity was invited to recognise and honour a critical segment of the world’s population. Statistics over the past two decades have repeatedly revealed that there were more men than women living across the nations of the world. Of the total 7.95 billion human beings in 2022, four billion were male, with 3.95 billion female. Demographers say that although men slightly outnumber their opposite gender, the latter’s efforts in upholding the fabric of society and the home suggest weightier contributions than many might concede.
The stabilising and engaging role of women in the world came in handy in the home of Manoah. Trembling and expecting death because an angel had appeared to him and his wife to announce that they would have a son after years of childlessness was pointless. His utterances of imminent tragedy and disaster were uncalled for. They denied him the blessedness of a celestial visitation. It was a woman who delivered him. His wife spoke faith and logic to restore hope. The angel was not a messenger of death; otherwise, he would not have brought life-giving tidings.
Today, the world is also counting on the wise counsel of the womenfolk. Accordingly, they are saddled with critical roles in government, industry, politics, civil service, the military, different professions, academia, and the home. Even while keeping the home as joyful mothers of children, as the Bible says, females have become heads of governments with excellent achievements. The first person to win the prestigious Nobel Prize in two fields was a woman: Marie Curie, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. She is the only person who has bagged the laurel in multiple sciences. The old notion of the home being the pinnacle of a woman has been overthrown.
Our Lord Jesus Christ recognised the place of women and allowed them roles in His Ministry. They “ministered unto him of their substance.” God’s justice system is for the woman to be the man’s “help meet” in a union in which either will be indispensable. The two must function as one, even as each has distinct and distinctive features that cannot stand alone. Both derive their uniqueness from mutual reliance. It is, therefore, against God’s order for women to seek militant gender independence or for men to treat women as inferior.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Woe to a world in which women are displaced.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Numbers 1-2
Daily Manna 7 March 2025
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