I would like to share with you insights from a recent article I read that speaks to the core of my convictions. I will also share my own insights from being a wife, mom and grandmother, aka (gramz/nana). I invite you to put on your walking shoe’s and join me in this adventure.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored. Titus 2:3-5
Now more than ever, young women need the older women to come alongside, disciple and encourage, in the spirit of Titus 2. Thankfully, the Lord has blessed us with many such women who faithfully point us to the basis of their wisdom, the only infallible rule of human conduct: the Divinely inspired word of God. And there we must turn, for in the absence of the anchor of Biblical convictions, we will be carried about by the winds of culture.
Never before have women, Godly mothers in particular, been besieged with so many conflicting expectations. In confusion we cry, “I wish God would tell me what He wants me to do!” In the counsel of scripture, we find that this is precisely what He did for the first woman – He directly instructed her in His will for her life. To be a helpmeet to her husband in fulfillment of God’s command to “…be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:28)
God designed for His magnificent creation to be brought to order and fruition through the family. God’s perfect design hasn’t changed.
Whether you are a stay at home mom or a working mom, take heart. Your ministry in the home is vital? It is so crucial that Satan’s first line of attack was to turn Eve’s heart away from trusting God’s word. This ancient ruse is still among the adversary’s most effective deceits!
What was the very first lie? That somewhere out there, beyond God’s expressed will for us, is something more desirable and fulfilling. When Eve reached for that beguiling “something”, she began a turn of events which brought about the destruction of all who would follow in her wake. So potent was this lie that it still prevails, still beckoning women with the same delusion of greater fulfillment outside our ministry in our home. But whenever we grasp beyond God’s designs for us, we will ultimately come away with less than true fulfillment.
Perhaps Solomon was thinking of Eve reaching into the forbidden tree when he penned Proverbs 14:1: “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.” This Proverb also points us to the wiser alternative. The Hebrew word for “house” in this verse carries the ideas of a house, a home, a temple, and a heritage.
Surely God has given us His best design! If a woman is wise, she will build her house into a home, a temple for her family, and establish a strong family heritage for God’s glory.
by Lynn Pyles Bruce
As we continue this series we will explore some of the practical ways wives and mom’s can glorify God through “building her house.”
Amen! Wow this is really encouraging!