Thoughts on the Woman's Place

 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 11
How God views women [as seen in Scripture]  .  .  . as I teach my daughter, is of the utmost importance to me. The women’s liberation movement would encourage women to consider themselves to be the same as men and to compete with them in their sphere. God desires us to move in a different sphere, where we have our own special place in His scheme of things. What can compare with the joy of giving sustenance to the sweet, tiny, helpless baby boy or girl who looks into your eyes from the moment of birth and who will someday call you Mother! What can compare with the safety and peace of a Christian home where you are responsible to guide that realm (1 Tim. 5:1414I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. (1 Timothy 5:14)), keeping out all that is in discord with the thoughts of God.
What monetary advantage could ever compare with the privilege of seeing your babies, when grown, walk as God-fearing adults, testifying to the grace of God, because you have, with your husband, sought to bring them up “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord”? Would you want to trade places with a man, dear young sister? Do you desire to “compete” in the man’s sphere, rather than following the wonderful examples of godly women found in Scripture—Lydia, Eunice, Lois, Chloe, Priscilla, Mary, Damaris, Phoebe, Persis, Tryphena, Tryphosa, Nereus’ sister, Barnabas’ aunt, Rufus’ mother, and “chief women not a few” (Acts 17:44And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. (Acts 17:4))? I wouldn’t!
From a sister’s note to younger sisters