Women, fulfill Your Biblical Role
Women, your Biblical purpose is to be a
helpmeet (Gen. 2:18, 20-23). Submission, modesty, and character comprise your
helping purpose (Prov. 31, Titus 2, 1 Tim. 2:9-15). God knew that men needed
somebody to support them, to help them be balanced, to help train the children,
to live closely and intimately with, and a fellow Christian to serve the
Creator with.
The subject of submission is
misunderstood by many today. Submission is not a man ruling with an iron rod.
The best example of Biblical submission is Jesus Christ. Christ was submissive to the Father. Here is how the spiritual
chain-of-command works: Christ is submissive to the Father, men are submissive
to Christ, women are submissive to their husbands, and children are submissive
to their parents. All are submissive in the Lord, they are not required to
“submit” when told to sin. Examples: Daniel; Shadrack, Meshach, and Abednego;
Moses, Joseph, Peter.
Noah Webster’s
1828 American Dictionary of the English
Language defines submission
as:
1. Acknowledgement of . . . dependence ; humble or suppliant
behavior.
4. Obedience ; compliance with the commands or laws of a
superior. Submission of children to
their parents is an indispensable duty.
5. Resignation
; a yielding of one’s will to the will or appointment of a superior without
murmuring. Entire and cheerful submission
to the will of God is a christian duty.
Scripture tells men that they must live their
lives sacrificially for you, women, as Christ did the for the Church. Women,
your husbands have it pretty hard as well; don’t think that people are only
pointing fingers at you telling you to submit. The only sub-mission we’re
looking at is Biblical submission.
Read Ephesians 5:22-6:9, this explains submission
perfectly.
You have
to decide if you will follow Scripture. Nobody else can decide that for you.
What will you choose, regardless to how un-cool or counter-cultural Scripture
might be?
