There are no Jews, Greeks, etc....Part 31

I cannot speak of women without speaking of the disturbing trend. Men wanting to dress as women and vice versa, men desiring to be women and desiring to have relationships with other men as women would have relationships with men. I am not talking about disguising or playing the part of the opposite gender. No I am talking about actually living as one of the opposite gender because that person feels strongly they were born the wrong gender. How sad a statement! How far from God that person has fallen, how much God is displeased with that very idea! Romans 1 speaks over and over how men will have forsaken God and He will let them do as they want but they will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. (I Cor 6:9) How sad that is! Some of the those who would be so useful to God just destroy themselves by their actions. But it boils down to being satisfied with the life God has given us. I know what it is like not to be particularly happy with what I have had to deal with, but I also know that I have had and am learning that God puts us in various positions for a purpose and that it all works out for His greater purpose. Men and women must be happy as men and women because they must know that why God created them and that God sent His Son and that God truly loves them. I know that as children boys are made fun of for being artistic and girls made fun of for being athletic. I also know that there are plenty of artistic masculine men and of athletic feminine women, and people learn to deal with the criticism. We must grow up and be God’s children, not children of satan. Women are as important to God as men are, but because humans are cruel and possessive and abusive without God then women are held down and not considered as people. So all problems result from when we don’t put God first, spousal abuse, homosexuality, perversion, stealing, murder, and any other sin. None of us, not men or women, must give in to sin. We must learn to be strong because God is strong.

There are no Jews, Greeks, etc..

And for the most part, the distinctions between men and women are still that way today. Because it comes natural to do that. It’s a cliché, but it is true: men are truly hunters, simply because they go out, busy themselves with bringing home the bacon, or the money to buy the bacon. And the women are the gatherers, simply because they are the ones to pick the fruit and vegetables and get water and go down to the river to wash clothes and nurse and educate children how they are to take their roles in society. This sounds chauvinistic, and indeed most women would frown on this description. But if we are honest, then we will know this is the only true way in which we can function in a healthy manner and maintain our relationships in marriage. And it is the only way women can survive this life modestly, as Paul speaks to Timothy about in 1 Timothy 2:9,10. Women must be modest, they must realize the importance of their roles of the ones that teach the children manners and propriety, or of what their role is. Women must put the emphasis not on fashion shows but on being godly and to doing good works. This sentiment is reiterated in 11 Peter 3:3,4. Remember that women are to have hearts made of incorruptible material, like men—led by the law of the Spirit, the commandment of Jesus as spoken by Peter in 1 Peter 3:7. Men are to acknowledge and honor their wives, because they are partakers of the inheritance in God. Many times, women see themselves as being described as being the weakest of the species. Is that accurate? Probably not, but we all have our strengths and weakness and women need men just as much as men need women. We cannot make it through this life without some interaction with each other, even if there are those that do not marry. This is shown in Isaiah 19:16, Jeremiah 50:39 and Jeremiah 51:30. The women in these passages may be seen as being weak and in need of protection by men from those that would do harm. I don’t know that I would think of women who need protecting as being weak in any other way except that there are some women who cannot fend of people that would do harm, and while there are those who are police officers and soldiers, men are the ones that train various women to fend off attacks. Why? Because men know how evil other men are. In Nehemiah 3:13, women, in being women, couldn’t keep the enemy out of the walls of Jerusalem, weren’t equipped to defeat those that would tear down the walls.

There are no Jews, no Greeks, etc...

God obviously looks upon women with favor, because the body of Christ is likened to the Bride of Christ, as seen in Revelations 21:2, 9. But does this favor of women happen all the time? No, but it is the desire of God to favor women. Only when men place their desires and their intentions on women do things go awry. In Ezekiel, women are considered to be precious, such that the daughters that are lost during a description of a loss would be considered the worst loss and devastation of all. (Ezekiel 26:6-8).

Women are also looked upon with favor because they are the first to notice when things need tending to, probably since they themselves are involved in every aspect of everyday life. Matthew 26:29 and John 18:16, 17, demonstrates this. The women recognized Peter as one of Jesus’ disciples. Why is this so important? Because it recognizes the existence of Jesus with witnesses other than His followers. The women were the first to recognize Jesus after He arose, much as they were the first to note He was gone. Although women were low on the totem pole, God used them and He took and takes them seriously. Women could and can pick up on the unusual, for instance in Acts 12:13,14 when Peter was released from prison. Rhoda met him at the door and delayed the message he was bringing to the household. Only those of faith would have and could have believed her.