Discover Your Value as a Wife and Mother

Pages 124-131

The next lie addresses a conflict between our culture and God's Word. This lie is about the value of being a wife and mother. For the last few decades, our society has been trying to tell women that they can't possibly be fulfilled by staying at home and raising their children.

Through countless mediums, the world shouts to women that we must be out in the workforce in order to be truly happy and to reach our fullest potential.

20. The Lie: A career outside the home is more valuable and fulfilling than being a wife and mother.

The Truth: In the will of God, there is no higher, holier calling than to be a wife and mother.

1 Timothy 5:9-10, "Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man, well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers.."

The Truth: God uniquely designed the woman to be a bearer and nurturer of life.

Genesis 2:24, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

Genesis 3:20, "And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living."

The Truth: There is not greater measure of a woman's worth or success than the extent to which she serves as the heart of her home.

Titus 2:4-5 (Amplified Bible)

"So that they will wisely train the young women to be sane and sober of mind (temperate, disciplined) and to love their husbands and their children, to be self-controlled, chaste, homemakers, good-natured (kindhearted), adapting and subordinating themselves to their husbands, that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach (blasphemed or discredited).

The Truth: God's plan is that a woman's primary attention and efforts should be devoted to ministering to the needs of her husband and children.

Genesis 2:18, "And the Lord God said, 'It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."

A Prayer

Lord, thank You for the distinctive calling You have given to women in their homes. I want to fulfill the role for which you created me. If there are changes I need to make in my priorities, please show me what I need to do and give me the courage to do it.

Help me to make our home a safe harbor for my family. Come into our home and make it a place where You are known and loved and revealed. Amen.