Encourage or Discourage?

“…so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.” (Titus 2:4-5)

Do we still consider these words to be honorable ones?  The image painted by the apostle Paul of the godly woman, working at home, breathing love into hearth and home is considered antiquated and vulgar by today’s standards (even misogynstic), yet the picture Paul describes is the loving home that every child and family yearns for, and statistically, the model that has been most successful.

Society has discouraged young women from being workers at home.  The Holy Spirit says we should encourage them to be workers at home.  We must decide which camp we shall join.

Matthew 4:4 #Biblebites

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.