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Originally Posted by OneAccord
Renda is right on target. While Eve and Jezebel are usually used as examples of domineering women, it is the weak men in these situations that allowed themselves to be dominated and manipulated. Isa 3:12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. How is it the verse here can be applied to this time and age? It is my opinion that this is because a good number of men do not understand their biblical role in the home, which is to be responsible to teach his children right, to love their wives, and to accept responsibilty for the provision for the household as Christ intended. And that word "provision" means a lot more than just being the "bread winner". |
Bro. OneAccord,
Growing up with a father that did indeed take the responsibility of his
family very seriously, I can relate to the bolded very well.
After working all day at Kraft Foods, Dad would make his way home, speak
to his children playing in the yard, step inside the screen door where my Mom
was waiting. I can see them now as they embraced for a long moment and
then shortly Dad would disappear for an hour or so. Reappearing to take care
of tasks and then supper together as a family. Reappearing with swollen, red-
rimmed eyes.My dad knew he MUST have the help of God to be the father he
needed to be. He took fathering very seriously.
After supper the smaller children might play for awhile. while the older girls
would help Mom clear and do dishes, etc.
Then Dad would go to the front porch and call the children inside. We knew
what that meant. It was time for family alter. Night after night that's was
the norm in our home growing up.
In 1958, fifty years ago this past Nov., Dad took his family alter to a small
humble storefront building. He wanted to share the "Good News" of what he
and his wife had experienced in the mid 30's. He would share it with the small
community in which he was raising his family.( That small town is now nearing
40,000 population.) Dad and Mom raised their eleven children in that small
town, all graduating from the local high school, some with highest honors.
Today anyone that has been here very long, know the family name. Not only
the family name, but what that name represented. It represented a family
who loved and lived for God. Children who were taught to love their parents,
love their brothers and sisters, love others. Children who were taught honesty
and integrity and to love and obey God's Word. Children who were taught to
respect God-given authoritiy, to love their country.
Our Dad and Mom were not parents with loud voices. They spoke to their
children in calm, quite voices. They didn't yell at their children. They just
spoke with calm authority. They didn't have to yell for we knew the voice
of parental authority and respected it. We were "trained" up that way.
You would never have called my Mom a domineering, bossy woman.
She was meek, not weak (she gave birth to eleven children at home
without anything for pain except calling upon a name that was able).
Strong women doesn't necessarily mean "domineering, bossy" women. If
some women had not been strong, I might not be here to tell the story
today. Strong women like my little grandmother, who defied her entire
family of strong Methodists, to obey the Word of God, going against their
family's religous tradition of many years.
Today I rise up and call BLESSED those dear, faithful, STRONG women
of my childhood days who provided a straight path for me. A path that
helped me become a woman of God, not desiring to be "domineering and
bossy" but a woman that is not afraid to say it, IF it needs to be said!!!
Speaking the truth in love!
Thank you, MOM, Thank you, Grandma Lizzie, Thank you, Aunt Lucy,
(Grandma Lizzie's older sister). Thank you to all the dear ladies that played
a part in shaping my life that I too, one day would be able to be an example
to our daughters, nieces, and others that needed someone that could tell
them with assurance that they too could make it, and one day become a
STRONG woman of God.
Blessings,
Falla39
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