Book Report-"Bad Girls of the Bible"

(And what we can learn From Them)-by Liz Curtis Higgs

I picked this book up at Baine's for $3.00.

Liz studied ten women from the Bible and labeled them as fitting under one of three categories.

1- Bad to the bone-included Jezebel, Potiphar's wife, and Delilah
2-Bad for a moment-Lot's wife, Sapphira, and Michal
3-Bad for a Season, but not forever-The woman at the well, Rahab, and the Sinful Woman who anointed Jesus' feet.
And the First Bad Girl award goes to Eve.

Liz included a poem in the back of the book and I will copy it here to summarize the book study.

"Eve had a hunger that cost her a garden;
Potiphar's wife had an appetite too;
Lot lost his mate when her past swirled around her;
Delilah went bad when she snipped a new 'do.

Sapphira fell flat when it came down to money;
Jezebel ordered her husband around;
Michal missed the message in King David's worship;
To the bone, in a moment, their badness was found.

Yet...

A woman in Samaria found a thirst quencher;
A sinner, a woman, anointed Christ's feet;
Rahab, the harlot, became a believer;
Her sin, like the walls, crumbled down in defeat.

Bad for a season, but no, not forever,
Not these three role models saved from despair.
Made new by God, their changed lives teach the lesson:
If we but ask Him, grace waits for us there.

by Liz Curtis Higgs