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years unto. Just the art of baking bread, or being a skilled seamstress, are areas in which
a person may continually advance as their knowledge and skill increases. For the woman
who would take on the healthcare of her family, the field of naturopathic medicine is vast.
Learning the medicinal and health promoting value of herbs, plants, and natural remedies
is an immense field of learning. Great harm has been brought to millions of families as the
children consume soda pop, loads of sugar, chemicals and heavily refined foods, and then
are diagnosed as having an attention deficit disorder and are put on mind altering drugs like
Ritalin. Do not women bear some responsibility for abandoning their role as the nutritional
supervisors of their homes?
The church should be the chief guardian of the home, and of those God assigned
family values and traditions. Yet, the church has given itself to the pursuit of the same
passions and desires as the world. The family has been abandoned. The nuclear family,
where life is centered in the home, has been neglected. In the time that families are home,
the children are often playing video games, listening to worldly music, or the family is being
mesmerized by the television and Internet. The entire family is sick morally, spiritually, and
physically. By one family member, the wife and mother, abandoning that calling God has
given her, trading it for the allure of the world and a career outside the home, great
devastation has resulted.
(Please note that I believe men have equally transgressed, and bear even greater
responsibility in God’s eyes because of their position of headship. However, this book is
written for the instruction and admonishment of the woman who aspires to godliness. She
can do much to restore her family to spiritual and natural health by giving herself to
apprehending and fulfilling the will of God for her life.)
The Bible consistently reveals God’s purpose for the woman as a homemaker. Even
as the woman is absolutely vital to reproduction, for the man cannot bear children by
himself, so too is the woman’s role in homemaking irreplaceable. Man needs a helper.
Yahweh declared this to be true, and He fashioned the woman to be man’s helper. The title
of “helper” seems inadequate to describe all the ways in which the woman renders
assistance to man. All of mankind suffers when the woman fails to apprehend and fulfill
Yahweh’s purpose for her life. May Yahweh raise up a remnant among women who will
demonstrate a spirit of excellence and zeal in seeking to fulfill the role for which they were
created.
Dare to be different. When the world is showing great scorn for the role of the
homemaker, let the godly woman by her attitude and example reveal the wisdom and
blessing that results from embracing the role for which Yahweh created her.