From him [Christ] the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Ephesians 4:16)
Think about the way your body works. Your brain works everything, your heart pumps the blood, your lungs distribute oxygen to your body. How does it all work? I've taken enough biology, and anatomy and physiology, to have the science of it down. You can look at chemical reactions, chain reactions from neurons, and the like to answer that question. Why though?
Think about what God did in making us the way we are. We can think so clearly and are so expressive, we are such rational people. Rational may not always be the best thing, but it does allow us to really think of the value of the gift that He has given us. He loves us so much that He made it possible for us to think, talk, and share, that he allowed us to have a wonderful way to share. We can think, bring His ideas together and be able to talk about all that He has to teach.
You can also think about this in the bigger sense of the church body. The congregation of a church have a responsibility to teach, bring people in, share His ideas. We have the commitment to teach and learn together as adults, as well as a great responsibility to bring children up in a loving church body and family. We also have a responsibility to bring people in to this church body, so that they are able to learn the truth, learn about the word. What's the thought about that?
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Wives and submission
Ephesians 5:22 "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord."
So I talked a little about this in yesterday's post. Women's lib is such a mistake. I'm not saying in any sense that women shouldn't have rights, be able to vote, that type of thing. Women need to have legal rights that are equal to men, but we are not here to be above them. We need to take a long, hard look at how we expect our families to run. In a family, wether you live with your parents or a husband, there can only be one person in charge, one person who runs the spirtual life, makes decisions, works on finances, and so on. I think that women definetly have a say in these decisions, that they are part of this family unit and are affected by all these decisions, but in the end, these decisions are the man's to make. We wonder why so many marriages end, when all we have to do is look around at these families where women can not just stand back, and accept the decions that their husbands make that will benefit them.
Some women look at this and you hear them stamp around saying that it takes a spineless women to just "bow down and take it". First, I never said anything about bowing down and taking it. I have always been in a blessed position where men have taken my opinons very seriously and have always taken my opinion in to consideration, allowing for things that mater to me to help guide, although not make, their final choice. But when it comes down to those women saying that it takes someone who is spineless to allow this, think about something. It's actually much harder to trust in someone else's choices, trusting that they will open their hearts to God to make the right choice. Many women are so set on 'my way or no way', and they don't take time to step back and let one person to think about the overall benefit to the entire family, not just thinking about what's best for one person. It's so easy to think about yourself, to decide what you want and then push for it. Try just once to sit down, talk about it, write about it, and then turn it over. If you truly believe, God will guide the hearts around you to make decisions that are really good for everyone.
For more food for thought, think about this: Titus 2:3 - 5 "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 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."
So I talked a little about this in yesterday's post. Women's lib is such a mistake. I'm not saying in any sense that women shouldn't have rights, be able to vote, that type of thing. Women need to have legal rights that are equal to men, but we are not here to be above them. We need to take a long, hard look at how we expect our families to run. In a family, wether you live with your parents or a husband, there can only be one person in charge, one person who runs the spirtual life, makes decisions, works on finances, and so on. I think that women definetly have a say in these decisions, that they are part of this family unit and are affected by all these decisions, but in the end, these decisions are the man's to make. We wonder why so many marriages end, when all we have to do is look around at these families where women can not just stand back, and accept the decions that their husbands make that will benefit them.
Some women look at this and you hear them stamp around saying that it takes a spineless women to just "bow down and take it". First, I never said anything about bowing down and taking it. I have always been in a blessed position where men have taken my opinons very seriously and have always taken my opinion in to consideration, allowing for things that mater to me to help guide, although not make, their final choice. But when it comes down to those women saying that it takes someone who is spineless to allow this, think about something. It's actually much harder to trust in someone else's choices, trusting that they will open their hearts to God to make the right choice. Many women are so set on 'my way or no way', and they don't take time to step back and let one person to think about the overall benefit to the entire family, not just thinking about what's best for one person. It's so easy to think about yourself, to decide what you want and then push for it. Try just once to sit down, talk about it, write about it, and then turn it over. If you truly believe, God will guide the hearts around you to make decisions that are really good for everyone.
For more food for thought, think about this: Titus 2:3 - 5 "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 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."
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