Apr. 26, 2007 - Role of women according to the Bible
Entry #4
Role of Women According to the Bible
What is the role of women according to the Bible? Why did God create females? What are we to do here on earth as females?
I'm so thankful that we can find all of our direction, life purposes, and answers in the Bible. Even if it doesn't tell the answers to some subjects directly, all of our answers to life can be found in this most holy and precious book.
And if you ever wonder what exactly is the purpose of females, we can find that right in the Bible. It's right at the beginning:
Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Adam had everything, lived in a perfect place, and even walked with God. Yet something was missing! Isn't that incredible? Even with all the things he owned, something was missing: Woman.
Adam seemed fine on just his own, yet God thought he needed more. A helper.
God created us females to be helpmeets to our husband. We are supposed to support, encourage, and help our husbands, or fathers if we're not married, in their life vision and mission. We are created to help the men in our life.
Even though the Bible is so clear on this, so many women want to disgaurd it. When some think of helpers, they think of a secondary position, place of foot-stool or place mat, unequal with the value of men, and an unfilling role.
No where does God imply or say that we're being "secondary" by obeying His plan by being helpmeets! Being a helper doesn't mean you're insignifigant or "don't measure up." Man and female were both created in the image of God. He made both of us with our own roles. Not one is more better than the other. And when we embrace and do what God created us to do, I think He'll bless us for obeying Him.
1 Timothy 5:14
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Titus 2:5
...To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Going by Scripture and not by my own reasoning, I truly believe God wants females to be helpmeets and keepers of the home=homemakers.
God created us to help our husbands one day, be homemakers of the home, and raise children up in the Lord. I think to truly take on that role that God has put onto us, we have to be at home. To really serve your husband, keep the home, and bring up godly seed, I think the only true way to do that is at the home. I don't think you can strattel the line and be both a helpmeet/mother, while working at a job all day at the same time. In my mind, there's only one choice: helpmeet/mother, or have a carreer.
When you're out working all day, you don't have time to keep the home. You don't have the time to fully raise up your kids in the Lord if you drop them off in day-care every morning while you go off at work. You can't truly serve and submit to your husband if you're out in the work field under a male boss who isn't your husband.
God created males to do the workin'. After Adam and Eve sinned, God put the curse of the ground and having to toil for food against Adam, not Eve, because men were created to be the leaders, the providers, protectors....not women. Women are supposed to support their husbands in the vision God has placed on the head of the home, man. Behind every great man is a great woman.
We're supposed to support them by being helpmeets, keeping the home, and raising up children. The men don't do that, women do.
Our world has this all backwards. Since the feminist movement, women have slammed the doors on the house as some "boring" and "insignifagant" role and have fled to the world for a "career" and "business."
But it's not a big surprise to have seen this happen. As our world keeps turning against God as our Creator, they are turning against his plans, purposes, and will for our lives as well. They have changed the Christian's viewpoint as well.
There's just too much to say about this, but let me tell you nothing can be more blessed than God's plan. It's in the Bible and is as plain as day of what our purpose is. As much as the world is trying to twist our mind and thinking about the role of being helpmeets and homemakers, nothing can be more of a blessing. When we let the world brain-wash us, and we run to the world seeking for answers, we leave the umbrella of God's love, perfect plan, and protection for us. Only can we find the real joy and reason for our lives when take in God's purpose and understand, it really is a blessing.
There's so much I could go into this small post, but it's just too much of a huge subject to get into. I suggest reading So Much More by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin. They go in the subject very well, and is very encouraging.
I would like to end from an excerpt from their book:
So Much More p.98
A truly strong woman is not masculine or mannish, but is firm in decision, character, beliefs, and action; she has all the softness that does not imply weakness in the wrong way; she is possessive of a firmness that is not harsh or domineering or exclusive of delicacy. She has the ability to provide for herself, but in restraint does not. Instead she channels that ability by supporting and building up her father or husband, enabling him to fulfill his God-ordained role. The strong woman is loving toward family, helpful whenever she can able she is competent, capable, and intelligent, yet dependent on, trustful of, and submissive to the Lord and her father or husband. I had never before understood the harmony that existed between being strong and being feminine. Yet a feminine is a strong woman, because her strength comes from embracing and fulfilling the role that God has given to women.
For the greater part of my life, I had no idea of the importance of our God-ordained mission as women. What responsibilities are attached to our work! What strength is required for and found in the pursuit of Biblical feminity--more than I ever had while pursuing feminist ideals and indulging my flesh. Performing the role that the Lord has given us women is never degrading, boring, unimportant, unexciting, or shameful, but quite the opposite--it is a wonderful and fulfilling privilege and blessing. The Scripture teaches that there are consequences to our actions: both negative for disobedience and positive for obedience (Deuteronomy 28; 29; 30:15-20). Our faithfulness as daughters and wives to welcome our responsibilities and do our duty will better enable our fathers and husbands to more fully and easily carry out their God-ordained mission in life.
