Guyon considered everything as coming from God, even if His tool of use was the devil, enemies, circumstances, or even friends.
She stated:
In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence. I was now in God and God in me; and where God is, there is as much simplicity as power. And what I did was done in such simplicity and childlikeness of spirit, that the world did not observe anything which was much calculated to attract notice.Guyon was a masterful wordsmith, and in very short sentences and/or paragraphs, could say as much as many attempt in an entire book, as evidenced above.
But it's the content of her words that matter, and they're based upon that which came from the inner fellowship and work of Jesus Christ within her.
Bizzarely, but not surprisingly, some are attempting to portray Guyon as some type of feminist, something that her life and works, including her comments above, completely condemn and reject.
To paint Guyon as a feminist is a rejection of her entire life, which as mentioned in the quote above, accepted all things as from the hand of God, and wouldn't even think of some type of wicked self-assertion, which is the overall impetus of feminists. The majority of real Christian women reject the movement, which opposes Jesus Christ, having done more harm to families, relationships and bringing children to birth, than any other group of people in the world.
The life of Jeanne Guyon, and her massive amount of writings, totally reject this outrageous claim, and for those who have read the majority of her works, like me, understand the lie that it represents.
Look at her words above. Faith, love, endurance, providence, submission, thankfulness, silence, simplicity and not attracting attention. All of these of course are the opposite of the obsession with self represented by feminists.
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