Page 25 - Sarah's Children

In the same way, we are asked to present ourselves freely as an offering to God. This
means we choose to be obedient to His revealed will for our lives even when it
requires a death to our flesh. For a woman today to freely choose to conform herself
to Yahweh’s revealed will for her requires such a free will offering. There is no
government agency that would require this of her. There is rarely ever a church
leader or teacher who would even proclaim to her the truth in this day. To follow
after God’s will in these matters a woman must do so freely, but when she does her
offering arises as a fragrant aroma in the nostrils of God.

It is Yahweh’s will that a woman who aspires to godliness today would adorn herself
with a gentle and quiet spirit. It is His will that she reverence her husband,
submitting to his will and treating him as her lord, even as Sarah did unto Abraham.
It is Yahweh’s will that a woman quietly receive instruction from her husband and
that she not correct her husband when he is disobedient to the word of God. Instead
she is to entrust herself to the One who judges righteously and she is to allow Him
to plead her case and deliver her in times of distress.

To live this way requires dying, but it brings forth life. The pride of the flesh wants
to deny that these things are so. The flesh seeks another path and a multitude are
walking this other path, but it is the way that ends in death. This false path seems
right to many men and women, but there is nothing in it that pleases the Father. May
we all have the grace to choose the narrow way that leads to life.