Hello!
I hope and pray you are well today!
I'd like to share with you some of my thoughts on homemaking.
I'm thinking of doing this each Monday.
It's been something on my heart, and I thought I'd start to share with you
a bit about homemaking in my home.
I'm not great with words, but would like to share with you some of the practical
everyday aspects of homemaking from a Biblical perspective.
Titus 2:3-5
Here we see that the aged women (the ones who have learned and are proficient at this),
are to teach the younger (who still need to learn).
To be sober: not taken with strong drink, but also sober is to be aware, vigilant. Also not given to an influence of passion...calm, controlled in the case of making decisions/ sober judgement.
Yes, women are known for their emotions, but we can learn to control ourselves when we need to be wise and make good judgement calls.
To love their husbands! This is so sorely missing today. The trend of husband bashing that I have seen over the years has been atrocious! We need to be taught to love, care for their needs, respect, honour and yes...to submit to our husbands. We are to be their helpmeets, not their bosses.
To love their children. Oh how the world sees children as either a burden or as an excuse to not take care of what they are responsible for. A child is a blessing from the Lord and yes, they take a lot of work. They require a lot of your time and energy. This is a good thing! The world is not all about you and what you need. As a mother we are to be sacrificial, to look to the needs of our children above our own.
Some look at children as more important than taking care of their homes or doing other responsibilities (including taking time for their husbands). There is a balance.
To be discreet. Noah Webster defined it like this:
Prudent; wise in avoiding errors or evil, and in selecting the best means to accomplish a purpose; circumspect; cautious; wary; not rash.
To teach the younger women to be self controlled, to use wisdom in the affairs of their homes.
To be chaste. This refers to sexual purity: for an unmarried woman to not involve herself in sexual relations, and for a married woman to remain faithful to her husband and their marriage bed.
Also this refers to one's conversation. To teach the young women to be free from obscenities. To have your speech be pure, uncorrupt, and free from hurtful words.
1 Peter: 3:2
Keepers at home. Keeper denotes one who keeps or cares for the home. At denotes that they do it at home and not from an outside source. There is much that is involved in keeping a home, and as an older women who is skilled in this, she can share her wisdom and knowledge with the younger woman in this area as well.
I would say that it would be in the areas of cooking, cleaning, shopping, managing bills, gardening, etc.
Good. This could be seen from various angles, but really it means not evil. We get the knowledge of what is good by reading and studying God's Word.
Obedient to their own husbands. Now pride says... no one is going to tell me what to do. But obedience says "thy will be done and not my own". To love our husbands in this way, to respect their headship in the home and the decisions they make is a very important skill that needs some direction from the older women. It's not to be a doormat for our husbands, but we as wives need to submit ourselves to them. If they ask something of us, we need to respectfully carry out the request.
That the Word of God be not blasphemed. The unbelieving world is watching! Will we honour the Lord through our marriages, parenting, personal conduct, and homes?
It is a high calling we as women have, and we need the older women who are knowledgeable in this to teach the younger women these things...or they'll learn from the world in an ungodly manner.
Thank you for stoping by!
Praying that you may find some edification through this.
Love and Prayers,
Jennifer
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