The highest office

“When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.”-2 Timothy 1:5

            Someone once told me, kids will follow what you do, long before they will listen to what you say.  This is absolutely true.  No doubt, every man has to choose for themselves if they will serve God, but there is a great advantage in seeing the faith lived before your eyes; and how much more so when you see it from those who you love and respect most.  Your mother and father.  Of all the titles one can have, none more blessed than mother or father.  Of all the institutions in the world, there is none more precious than the home.       

Without question the most underappreciated and overlooked job in America right now, is the Christian housewife.  Not really sure when it happened, but it seems the process of progression took us to a place of gender neutrality and gender equality, and in doing so, we never stopped to think about what was being sacrificed to fuel our progression.  Truly, America is and should always be the land of the free, and everyone should have equal opportunity.  That being said, if it is a women’s ambition to be a wife, mother, and housewife; you will scarcely find a nobler calling.  Modern culture exalts education, business, and enterprise; champions free thinking and me first discovery.  You can be what you want, do what you want, and marry whomever you want.  The subliminal message is that the Bible, the home, and the title of “housewife” is simply a way to keep the women in her place.  It is published, that the modern women is not so one dimensional, you can do what you want to do, go where you want to go, and be what you want to be; being a mom can simply be one of the many hats you wear.  However the result is, we are all too encumbered to ask: while were all out finding our own way in this world, who is guarding the home?  Who is guiding the home?  Modern day parents are working 60 hour a week jobs, paying babysitters, virtually killing themselves so they can send their kids to top universities.  Universities that will teach them this same “me” first thinking; never realizing that the greatest university in the world is a solid Christian home.  The most valuable teaching facility in American is a Godly home, guided by a Godly husband and wife.  The most important lessons will not be taught in a classroom, but in the living room; or at the kitchen table.  My mother was never college educated, she never ran a company or wrote a best seller; but I learned more from her than I ever did from any university.  Businessmen and women make products for profit, mothers mold lives.  Teachers and educators instruct students, mothers fashion the character of future generations.  She stayed at home, put up with our craziness, and taught us about Jesus; not just with her words but with her life, and her mother did the same.  Grandma is a child from the Great Depression, and has known loss and struggle.  That said, she continues to serve God with reverence and godly fear.  She may never be recognized at a business luncheon or receive an award for services to her community, but she did more good by faithfully serving her God and dutifully raising her children than many who commit their all to education or industry.  The world doesn’t champion it, and our culture doesn’t exalt it, but the gospel is generational and mothers carry the torch (more so than most) from one generation to the next.  Think of those who influenced you the most, those who taught you about Christ, those who you wish to emulate.  Odds are good a mother or grandmother is in that rank.  Admittedly, not everyone is afforded this great blessing, but no one should be robbed of it because of stereo-typical cultural or world views.  When kids see their parents and grandparents faith it builds their faith.  When children are raised and guided by consistent, compassionate, determined, God fearing women; accompanied by a husband who loves Jesus and accepts his role as the chief servant in the hierarchy of the household, it effectively prepares the soil so that one day the Word of God can one day take root. 

We live in a world that has so many opinions and “movements” it sometimes is easy to lose sight of what matters.  Please don’t misinterpret, it is not my intention to tell anyone what they should do or how they should live, rather, call attention to the value of one of the highest offices a person can hold on this Earth: the Christian mother and housewife.  The future is not determined by those who we elect, educate or appoint; but by those who raise them.  Let the Church rally around those who embrace this calling.