Great Women

Did you ever notice what great employees women make? They are so good at helping your business to be successful. They care about whether things are done rightly and they look out for your best interest.

Did you ever notice what great teachers women are? Look at most any school, especially in the younger grades, and you will see them dominated by women teachers. They enjoy the opportunity to train up children and they are good at it.

Did you ever notice what great daycare providers women are? Visit a daycare facility sometime and look at who the workers are. Most women enjoy working with young children and are good at it.

So what is my point here? In my last blog I wrote about the providence of God, the fact that He as the Creator not only created us, but also had a plan for our lives. His plan included, for most of us, that we would be married and have children. We see in the Bible that this is normative for man. God not only ordains the ends that he wants accomplished, but also the means by which it will be accomplished.

He tells us that it is normative for a woman to be married to a man who will be her leader, provider and protector; to be his companion and suitable helper as they engage in a joint dominion calling under God; to have children and to, along with her husband, train up those children such that we will be faithful to raise up godly generation after godly generation.

Which brings me back to the three observations I noted about women being great employees, great teachers, and great caregivers to children. Do you see the parallel?

God calls women to be their husband's helper, not the helper (employee) of some other man, under his authority, helping this other man to meet his dominion calling rather than being under her husband's authority and protection, and helping her husband to meet his dominion calling under God. Why do the vast majority of women miss this? Because both they and their husband have fallen prey to Satan, our ungodly culture, and their own desires. Women, do you want real fulfillment in life? Follow God's revealed plan and role for your life. I have never met a women who sincerely pursued this that did not find fulfillment by being obedient to God in this way.

God calls women to, along with their husband, teach and train up their own children, not send them off to an ungodly government institution. Women are wonderful teachers, of their own children. No one cares for their children more. The lie of Satan and the world is that you must send them off to "professional" teachers, you are incompetent. God gave those little children to you and equipped you to train them up. He never asks you to do anything you are unable to, and that includes training your children up. Is it hard? Sure it is. Is it worth it? Without a doubt. Visit some families who have faithfully done this and listen to their testimony. Women, do you want real fulfillment in life? Follow God's revealed plan and role for your life. I have never met a women who sincerely pursued this that did not find fulfillment by being obedient to God in this way.

I don't think I need to review women as caregivers to children. You get the point. God calls you to your own family, the one He gave you.

Remember Paul's words in Titus 2:4-5 where he is telling older women what to teach younger women: "That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed."

There are many passages in the Bible that speak to this timeless principle I am referring to here. God is soveriegn, he has a plan for all of life, for each of us. He told us how to live our lives and the roles we each have in it. If we simply pay attention and do it his way we can have real fulfillment. Don't lie to yourself and think "surely God calls me to this or that," when its a contridiction to what he has clearly said in the Bible.

Let us repent and turn back to God, giving him, our Creator, all of our life. Let us show him our love by our obedience. Perhaps you hadn't thought of it this way before, but now is the time to consider what God has said and decide ... your way or His?