Truths and Lies to ruffle a few feathers...
Along with tracking the "Dating" series in Boundless, I am turning my interests towards a topic I have long been passionate about. This topic is something that I am planning to research over the next few months and find out the real truth (and lies) along the way in hopes to bring what I've learned to the table in a series discussion about Biblical Womanhood.
To whet your appetite on the subject, and to have a place to store ideas and articles, you'll see things I am reading about and thinking about start to be posted here. Always open to comments and discussions- mostly because they aren't from my own voice, opinions and conclusions-- yet.
Remember to always apply anything you read and hear back to the Scriptures, and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you to the truth of what people are telling you.
That said.... happy reading!
SHE said:
As I traveled the country to do research for “Lies Young Women Believe,” I found countless young women who admitted that they didn’t feel free to pursue becoming wives and mothers as their primary purpose. The said things like “ For me the whole family idea is kind of overrated,” and “ It is not about families and having kids anymore. Women are expected to have careers, too.” One young lady spelled it out in black and white. “It has become uncool to want a husband and a family,” she announced.
Many of you have fallen prey to the lies of the world in the area of God’s design for you as a woman. You feel driven to find your worth through your future career and to deny God’ purpose for you within the home.
The truth is that God created women to be a helper to man and a mother of children. Genesis 2:18 announces “ Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone, I will make a helper fit for him.” In LYWB, Dannah and Nancy assert that for most of us, God has called us to serve by being a helper to a husband.
HE said:
"A man who really gets Ephesians 5 is the kind of man who will be willing to work two jobs and live in a trailer to enable his wife to be the primary caregiver of his children."
This line from a recent post and JBMW contribution by Dr. Russell Moore affected me profoundly. I would imagine that this comment would sound strange to many ears. Why on earth would anyone live in a trailer park if they don't (absolutely) have to? In a materialistic society (and a materialistic church, maybe?), there is perhaps no sharper ideological razor to be applied in making familial decisions than that of economic concerns.
