Several years ago a speaker was being interviewed on the radio, and he used quotes from an article that went like this:
“The gist of the article
says: There is a quiet subculture out there... I came across a number of men—who have decided not to
marry. The reason? Women are no longer women.”
The article suggests that, apparently,
men have a genetic disposition to be masculine. In today's culture people call it toxic masculinity. But their manly instincts are to care for, protect,
guide their households. In short to be the MAN of the family. We are told that women today do not want manly men,
and according to the speaker being interviewed, some men do not want manly women.
We hear a relentless
barrage about the war on women, but what is this war? What do women want? Birth control? Job equality? Is it abortion at any
stage on demand? Or do they want to be
men? Even as a woman, I don't know what these women want.
The war on women is like an old
fashioned false front building. It is tall and lofty from the front, but nothing
behind it. I have said on numerous occasions—“in our society, you can tell a man to stand up, sit
down, turn around, and shut up, but you cannot tell a woman anything.”
If
you tell a woman she needs to do something to be pleasing to God, even Christian women will tell you why
those things do not apply to them. Ninety-eight percent of them will say, that doesn't apply to me.
However, here's a news flash—The war is not against women, not
against men, but against God.
Genesis 3:1 “Now the serpent
was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he
said unto the woman...”
We know that the serpent/Satan beguiled Eve into thinking she was missing
something since she was not allowed to eat of the fruit. God was cheating
her, so she ate, “and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did
eat.” Why did Eve eat of the fruit? She wanted something she thought she just had to have. This is feminine nature. Women want to change things. They want to be taller, shorter, thinner, fatter… It is a never-ending list that spells discontent.
1Timothy 2:14 “and Adam was
not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:”
Why did Adam eat of the fruit? He
wasn’t tricked or beguiled. Did Adam look down a long corridor of eternal life
and decide that he could not live forever (eternal life) without
Eve (now that she would die)? The scriptures do not reveal
his reason for disobeying, but we know what their fruit bore for them… and for
all of humankind.
Satan is subtle and effective using social media to sell the ideas to women that create discontent such as: “Have it your way…” or “You deserve a break today,” or “Why wait, you can have it all now, or "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle…”
Ephesians 5:24 “But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.”
Christians focus on the second half—wives be in subjection— of course, we can't do that in today’s society. Men have been relieved of the burden of the position of the head of the family but...
The sad reality is Christ as head of the church has followed in the same manner. Christ has been relieved as head of the church just as husbands being the head of the wife. Very few, in fact, revere Christ as head of the church. Yes, they honor him with their lips, but their heart is far from him.
Satan is still using women to accomplish his agenda. Instead of looking for validation from other women, or validation from their jobs and from things of this present world, women ought to be looking to God for guidance to what's right and pleasing to Him.
God as an omniscient, omnipotent Creator knows what is best for us. The church must return to its first love. We don't want to continue along the lines that we are currently going down. We wonder why we are losing our influence in the world. We wonder why we are losing our children, and we wonder why we are losing the battle against Satan.
Ephesians 6:12 “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
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