Do you wish to protect your home?

[Leonardo Von]

    Do you wish to protect your home? Instead of cultivating jealousy and oblige your spouse to set aside their friends of opposite sex, live what the Holy Scripture says and you never will put in jeopardize your family. 

•    “And *the LORD God* said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an *help meet* for him.” (Gen 2:18)

Regrettably, people forgot that the marriage is a project of the Creator. As a project, each one have their role. 

The woman, for instance, was created for the man (1Co 11:9), in order to be his helper. I know that this is very difficult to be lived by women nowadays. what Isaiah prophesied is fulfilled:

•    “And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” (Isa 4:1).

The women, most of the times, long for being independent of her husband.

However, such as the Church was created to be used by Jesus to manifest His multifold grace and wisdom (Eph 3:10; 1Pe 4:10) to principalities and potentates, the woman was created so that the man can manifest his glory in her, that is to say, the glory of Christ in his life (see 1Cor 11:7).

May it be clear: the grace of the life for the couple is only one:

•    “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as *being heirs together of the grace of life*; that your prayers be not hindered.” (1Pe 3:7)

In other words, husband and wife don’t have each one their alliance with the Creator and cooperate each other. Instead, the Creator made the alliance with the man and made his wife to help him to fulfill his mission to bear fruit, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it (Gen 1:28).

And the detail is that this verse comes before Genesis 3, when the sin entered in the world. That is to say, this commandment is the good, perfect and pleasant will of the Creator for the couple (Rom 12:2).

Furthermore, it wasn’t of the man the idea to establish the marriage, but of the Creator. He established this, even before the man feel the necessity of someone.

Therefore, for those who desire to be successful in their home, it’s necessary to welcome this principle. Otherwise, the couple will be adulterating the project of the Creator, in which the couple ought to be a perfect illustration of the relationship between Christ and His Bride (Eph 5:25-27).

Don’t mind what the husband is (his character, profession, social position, race, etc.), the woman was put in his life, not to cooperate with him with “strange fire” (pore on Leviticus 10:1,2), with something that doesn’t have anything to do with the alliance that the Creator did with him. Instead, she should keep the fire that the Creator poured down on her head (namely, his husband – 1Cor 11:3).

In other words: it isn’t two ministries working together, but only one ministry being carried out by the wife under the supervision of the husband aiming the manifestation of Jesus’ light wherever and whenever.

For you see the gravity of this, recollect Genesis 3:

•    “And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” (Gen 3:11).

Adam was rebuked by the Creator because he sought information of another source beyond Him. And, at the same way, the woman is adverted to learn through the wisdom that the Creator put in his husband:

•    “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” (1Co 14:34,35).

May the husbands have a good day dedicating all his time cherishing his wife ministring the knowledge of the Creator in Jesus’ presence; may the wives have a good day subjecting themselves to all this unction, wisdom and love that Jesus put in his husband. And may all the children have a good day spending time together with their parents so that they can learn what is really good for their souls and of people around them.
 
Stay in the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ and His plan for you and your neighbor.