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and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to
Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Is it not evident that God has a specific will for His sons and daughters? Those who
are mature are led by the Spirit in all their works.

Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Christ was a mature Son, and He did only that which He saw the Father doing. If we
are to follow in His steps we must live as He lived. The invitation of Christ is “Come, take
up your cross, and follow Me.” We must be equally surrendered to the direction of the Spirit
of God in our lives as He was.
Let us return now to the subject of women and their occupations. Many Christian
women spend decades of their adult lives working in jobs and careers outside the home. In
many cases, indeed the majority of them, the woman was led to this life consuming activity
by the counsel of her own soul. She did what seemed good and desirable, according to the
reasoning of her mind, rather than seeking the mind of the Father to know what He would
command her to do. Christian women in great numbers are leaving their infant children in
the hands of daycare services and babysitters while they go off to work outside the home.
They have given the training and education of their older children to the godless public
schools that promote a humanistic world view. They neglect the nutritional needs of their
families, setting before them the dead, heavily processed convenience foods of the stores
and restaurants. They neglect to pray for their husbands and children, or to train up their
children in the knowledge and admonition of the Lord. Their time is demanded elsewhere.
They have given themselves to careers, and activities outside the home, while neglecting to
inquire of God about His will for them. Will He say “Well done, good and faithful servant,”
when they have failed to do His will? What sorrow it will be to stand before Christ on the
day of judgment and to hear the words, “Depart from Me you workers of lawlessness. I
never knew you.”
Before you assume that I have concluded that it is always wrong for a woman to work
outside the home, hear what I have to say. I am speaking to those women who have made
their life decisions independently of God. I am speaking to those who CANNOT say with
Christ, “I do nothing of My own initiative. I only do the will of the Father.” The church by
and large today knows very little of the cost of discipleship. Pastors and teachers encourage
their congregations to envision the dreams and desires of their own souls and pray that God
might fulfill all. This is not the teaching or example of Christ. It is “anti-Christ.”

James 4:3-4
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may
spend it on your pleasures. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with
the world is hostility toward God?

The Christian woman today who finds her life conformed to that of the world around
her should question how she arrived at this condition. Did God give her command to pursue
employment outside of the home, to labor to acquire the goods of the world, a nice home,
a car, and many material things? Was it the direction of the Spirit that led her to abdicate