KEEPERS AT HOME, PART 4

“He (Jesus) answered and said unto them,
Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning
made them male and female”
(Matthew 19:4).

We now live in a time where we have division of labor. There was a time when a craftsman worked on his craft from beginning to end. The shoemaker crafted his shoe from the beginning to the finished product and took great pride in his work. However, today we have specialization of labor where certain people are assigned a specialized task to increase efficiency, productivity, and economic wealth. Each person becomes a specialist in their area.

My son-in-law is an engineer and works on Nissan cars. He oversees the molding of the engines. That is his specialized task. He doesn’t work on other parts of the manufacturing of the car.

There are advantages and disadvantages of the division of labor. One advantage is that the worker becomes an expert in his field and as he continually works on it, he finds better and faster ways to do his task and therefore continues to improve efficiency. More products can be made and therefore more economic wealth. One of the disadvantages is monotony because the worker is only doing one task.

I believe in the division of labor for wives and husbands, mothers and fathers. It is God-ordained. However, in our career of mothering we are blessed to embrace all the advantages and yet we don’t have the disadvantage of only doing the same thing day after day. Oh yes, we do have to do many of the same things, but we are not limited to them, nor do we have to do them the same way if we don’t want to. We can think of new ways of doing them.

We are queen of our home. The manager of our home, designated by God (1Timothy 2:15). We can make our home whatever we want it to be—a place of order, blessing, joy, and laughter. We can be as creative as we want to be. We have a domain to rule over. We are not subject to doing one task all day long. We have many different and unique tasks to accomplish in a day.

But we do have specialization of labor. God has ordained this for the man and woman. He created men with 50 percent more brute strength than women. They are stronger, enabling them to work hard to provide for their families, to take the weight of the overall responsibility of the family, and to protect their families.

God created the woman as a maternal being. He created her physically to conceive a baby in her womb and to nurture her babies and children. It is a lie from the devil that has been given to women that their body will be affected detrimentally by birthing children. The very opposite is the case. The pregnant mother is blessed with a thousand percent increase in anti-aging hormones. The nursing mother is flooded with the beneficial hormones of oxytocin and prolactin.

When a husband and wife both do the same things, they will not experience the same productivity. Oh yes, a wife may be able to earn more money than her husband, but in leaving her home and children she sacrifices her God-given career for a lesser one. No amount of finance can make up for the loss of the mother in the home.

Family life is fragmenting today because women are leaving the home. What is the fruit? The couple may have more money, but their family weakens. And as the family weakens, the nation weakens.

As I talk with women, I find that many women no longer have time to be home to prepare meals for the family, to have time to sit with their children at mealtimes and talk together and then have family devotions together. These times are far more important than taking the husband’s position of providing for the family, even if you must manage with less finance.

To leave babies in the care of others when God gave them to the mother is not worth all the money in the world. Others may care for babies and children physically, but they will never feel and understand the true inner needs of your child. Every child always longs for his or her mother God intends children to be raised by mothers in homes, not in daycares by unknown people.

Let’s walk in the true division of labor that God, the great wise Creator, mandated for us.

Have a great day, Nancy Campbell

www.aboverubies.org

PRAYER:

‘Dear Father, I thank You for Your wonderful and wise plan for us. You created our bodies. You created men and women differently and suitably for our specific tasks. I thank You, and I embrace the role that You have given to me as a woman and a mother. You created me to be womanly and motherly, and I want to be this with all my heart. I delight in Your perfect plan. Amen.,”

AFFIRMATION:

It is my joy to embrace my role as a woman and I release my husband to the role God has given to him. I refuse to infringe on his function and purpose.