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            Happy Mother’s Day to all of our readers that are mothers!  Just as God gave Adam one, simple command that he disobeyed, so, He gave woman taken out of man a two-fold purpose and one command (Genesis 2:17, 3:16b).  But Satan, sin and self have not let all women joyfully embrace God’s two-fold purpose to be wives and mothers.  In fairness, sinful men have not always made the two-fold purpose of women easily appealing to them!  Nevertheless, the will of God stands as validated by Jesus Christ when questioned on the issue of divorce (Matthew 19:1-10).  He did as He has led me to do in teaching God’s program for mankind: go back to the beginning.

            All disobedience is sin!  Thus, on this Mother’s Day 2018 the Lord has had me post this edited 2010 Commentary near the end of my series of posts since April 8^th and celebrating “The Value Of Women” to stress that women like men as sinners need His salvation too.  Even if you have done the will of God in being a wife and mother, this alone cannot save you!  However, if you have disdained obedience to the will of God for you as a wife and mother being a feminist or other rebel barring any natural obstacles such as no suitors or sterility respectively, then you have magnified the justice of His wrath upon you as a sinner.¹  Weak in sin, God prefers to have you become great in His sight!

Originally Published May 2010

            Our nation's calendar is fast filling up with special days for every conceivable person, thing and event.  The significance of the older of these special days is already diminishing in the face of their increase and the obvious commercialism that is attached to each one.  Mother's Day is one of those older special days that is steadily losing its power to forcefully direct our thinking not only to authentic appreciation of our mothers, but even deeper, the absolutely essential role women have in the continuing existence and expansion of humanity on earth.

            It is in the intensifying darkness of rebellion against the divine purposes for, design and order of human life on earth that every aspiring strong man of God in the image of Christ can see the light of how sin is devastating the female version of man and motherhood.  The Bible says, “all have sinned…,” (Romans 3:23), so, this clearly means women too!  It also means women equally like men are weak before God through sin.  Women in pride engage in denial and play all of the mental games of men to attempt to escape their weak and fallen condition with the same failed result.

            However, after thousands of years of mostly compliance with their unique calling as wives and mothers by divine design and creation, in these latter days a growing number of women are even openly rejecting that calling.  Some defiantly refuse to marry men and become mothers preferring instead to have same sex relationships or to pursue male oriented ambitions.  Others willfully choose to become single mothers.  An incredible number of married and single mothers abuse, abandon and murder their children.  These acts born of sin in weakness are very egregious to God.

            The female version of man only exists in this present age to help their husbands fulfill God’s two basic purposes: rule the earth as stewards and fill it with humanity (Genesis 1:26-28).  God created the man first making him the head and took the woman out of him as his companion and helper.  In their bodies He deliberately created a division of role and responsibility for the conception of children.  The man fathers the children; the woman conceives, bears and nurtures them.²  Together, the couple and their children were to subdue and govern territory on the earth to the glory of God.  This is still God’s program until He, not man, changes it and He is going to (Luke 20:27-36)!

             While the sons of God from among men and women of this present age that live to please Him and do His will are His strong men eternally, the women are now also called great!³  This is because Christian women that voluntarily submit to the order, roles and responsibilities God has designed for the fulfillment of His mortal purposes well please Him.  There is no greater work or ministry they can perform than to cooperate with God and their husbands in bringing human life into existence (1 Timothy 2:11-15).  Indeed, Adam called his wife, "Eve" because he understood the awesome role and responsibility she was given as "the mother of all living," (Genesis 3:20, NKJV).⁴

             In being a wife and mother, women act in the likeness of God.  The Holy Spirit condescends to serve as every Christian's intended eternal Companion and Helper (John 14:16-17).  The great woman of God humbly submits to the divine will to do the same with her husband.  God is a life giver; women are too.  God said from the beginning, "'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness,'" (Genesis 1:26a, NKJV).  Man the male and female both share in the image and likeness of God.  Hence, because the woman is not the head of the family does not make her roles any less important.  Praise God for His great and all women that willingly choose to be wives and mothers!

             Women and men of this age that refuse to fulfill their God assigned roles and responsibilities plainly show themselves to be proud, arrogant and self-willed rebels that will be destroyed in the divine wrath that is near at hand (Romans 1:18-32).  So, the Lord is calling all rebels to repentance!  The unsaved are called to repent and believe the Gospel--that He died on the cross for your sins, was buried and rose again on the third day--to be saved from wrath (1 Corinthians 15:1-4); willfully sinning professed Christians to escape the fate of being found apostates (Hebrews 10:26-31, 35-39).  Judgment begins (and has begun) in God's own house on the earth (Luke 13:6-9; 1 Peter 4:12-19). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"

1 I am well aware that there are church traditions of Christianity the religion of men that have given women a path out of God’s two-fold purpose for them through voluntary

   celibacy  and  consecrated  service.  However,  if  the  Bible  is  used as the final source of authority, God’s specific calling of women to lifelong celibacy is not found in it,

   though,  the  apostle  Paul  affirms  it  as an acceptable, personally chosen act of devotion (1 Corinthians 7:25-40).  Even so, younger women especially must be soberly
   committed  to  their  vow lest--as Paul warns about widows--they renege bringing condemnation on themselves and giving Satan opportunity to boast (1 Timothy 5:9-15).
   I  conclude  in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics that lifelong celibacy as a specific calling from God is of men and very rare.  Learn the reason why and
   more  about  the biblical calling to lifelong celibacy by getting a copy of my book available through all major internet booksellers, order from your favorite brick and mortar
   bookstore  and  in  the  Strong  Man Store.  Concerning Christianity as a manmade religion read my two-part, August 21-28, 2016 post, Christianity The Religion Of Men,
   under the category, Instruction.

2 Read the May 1, 2016 post, Natural Bodies By Divine Design, under the category, God’s Creatures.

3 Definition and prophetic clarity concerning the great woman of God and the eternal future of mortal women are fully given from the Bible in my book.  Discussion on these

   topics drawn from the Bible and my book can also be read in blog posts the Lord led me to write May 18-26, 2014 and June 19-August 7, 2016.

4 The Great Woman Of God Mothers message as an audio download or CD is available in the Strong Man Store.

            Critical to a human family as God designed it in perfection is a devoted wife and mother.  For while a man as the head of the family importantly initiates, gives visionary leadership and overall governance to it, a devoted wife and mother provides bonding love to all and excellent management skills that keeps it running smoothly.  Regardless of family size, her job is incredibly challenging and requires all that God has designed a woman to be naturally and because of sin, supernaturally in nature, character and demeanor to pull off successfully!  Therefore, being a devoted wife and mother as a woman is not something inferior or trivial, but very significant and precious to her family.

            The struggle many women of child bearing age have today balancing education and career aspirations with the demands of being fully devoted wives and mothers is taking a devastating toll on them and their families.  From personal mental and physical health issues to the multifaceted drama of marital strife often leading to divorce and traumatized children, many affected 21^st century women attempting to live out 20^th century feminism’s narcissistic ideal to “have it all” are suffering greatly.  In the process, virtually gone are the days women as devoted wives and mothers joyfully gave themselves in self-denying, sacrificial service to their husbands and children and were still fulfilled.

            From the 18^th century industrial age women have been pressing their way into male dominated workplaces.  While the Woman’s Suffrage Movement sought to politically enfranchise them in the 19^th century, by the middle of the 20^th century, feminist descendants expanded their objectives to include the right to be free from the ancient biblical, Judeo-Christian expectation of marriage and family.  As I wrote in a previous Mother’s Day post, Betty Friedan is generally credited with voicing the rallying cry for “Women’s Liberation” from what she and others she surveyed felt were the mundane and dissatisfying tasks of just being wives and mothers especially for those that had been educated.^{1 2}

            Since Friedan in the mid-sixties, feminism has urged women to pursue their dreams in all fields of endeavor and to do so without guilt concerning marriage, family and their own biological clocks to find the significance and fulfillment they equally deserved with men.  But there yet remains stubborn resistance by the large number of struggling women to an all out abandonment of marriage and family as a valid avenue of female experience.  Indeed, among them are many professed women of faith who like others still wanting marriage and family as devoted wives and mothers in accord historically with God’s design for them, struggle too, because they cling to Satan’s lie in feminism.

            For a generation women have heard the lie that they should not be satisfied and in related evil, envious and resentful toward men in authority.  However, faithful contemporary women of faith find themselves in a long line of sisters that begins in the Bible who were well adjusted, satisfied and fulfilled as devoted wives and mothers of significance and blessing to their families.  These women receive satisfaction from their God designed roles and praise from their families because they start not in narcissism with themselves, but Him as the woman of Proverbs 31:30.  Interestingly, it is a mother’s instruction to her son that reveals why such women are relatively few (Proverbs 31:1-3, 10).

            A woman that knows and fears God loves and is devoted to Him first!  In that devotion, she is joyfully eager and willing in all submission to embrace the roles and responsibilities He has assigned in order to please Him and do His will.  As a result, with His guiding wisdom and strength, this great woman of God purposefully commits her life to being the best possible wife to her husband and he knows it (Proverbs 31:11-12).³  With his trust, encouragement and support because he and the whole family also benefit, she works in and outside of the home using her God given talents to operate businesses without neglecting her family (Proverbs 31:13-24).  Because she knows the Lord, she is a woman of compassion, strength, dignity, wisdom, kindness and diligence (Proverbs 31:25-27).

            Amazingly, because her significance is tied to her God’s love, acceptance and approval, the great woman of God is completely satisfied with her life.  She also truly has it all since she uses every fiber of her being, knowledge, talents and skills to serve the purposes of God in her roles and responsibilities as a devoted wife and mother.  Blessed, her family rises up to “call her blessed;” her husband “praises her” as does the watching community (Proverbs 31:28-31; NKJV).  Foolish is the man that would oppress such a wife; treasure her, she is from God!⁴  My sisters that are guilty: repent from buying into the lie of feminism; put God first then your husband and children (Psalms 37:3-4, 111:10; Isaiah 55:1-3).  The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?" 

1 See the May 11, 2014 post, Motherhood In A Time Of Rebellion, under the category, God’s Creatures.

2 Read about Betty Freidan and her impact on American feminism at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan.

3 Learn more about the great woman of God in the image of Jesus Christ in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics available through all major internet book-

   sellers, by order from your favorite brick and mortar bookstore and in the Strong Man Store.

4 My grandmother, Eunice Campbell, featured on the Great Woman Of God Mothers CD cover worked nearly all of her sixty-six year life as have most black women from

   slavery,  including  her  daughter,  my mother, Bettie Kelley and my wife, Mary, when our children were in the home.  Momma as an aspiring great woman of God main-

   tained  an  excellent  Christian  witness  to  her nominally professing Christian husband and family.  While being an excellent wife, mother, homemaker and working full-

   time as a Civil Service Food Service Worker with AAFES at the Fort Ord Army Base, she still went to mid-week and Sunday church services.  She only took my siblings

   and me to church as children on many Sundays where we were exposed to Christianity.  Momma was overjoyed later when as a young adult, I came to Christ and gave

   her a preview of my exercising the gift of preaching as a babe before her departure.  We called her blessed while she was with us; I declare her so again in sweet mem-

   ory  of  her  this  Mother’s  Day!  The  Great Woman of God Mothers CD is available in the Strong Man Store.