the reason we are here

Spring~Waterhouse

Today, homemaking is not highly valued. Some see it as a selfish waste of time. That women like me ought to be out doing something meaningful and help alleviate their husband's bread winning burdens.

The goal of homemaking is not what the world thinks. While homemaking is certainly fulfilling if it is approached from the right angle, that is not the goal. The scriptures teach woman to be lovers of husbands, children, and home. In order to do this wholeheartedly, we must first love God. God will turn our hearts to our husbands and children. If we put Him first, we can serve them with joy and self-denial. The main goal of homemaking is to provide a loving sanctuary from the world.

God gave all commandments for our happiness. Since He commanded Christian women in Titus 2 and 1 Timothy 5 to serve in their homes first, it is for the sake of joy.  Homemaking is the obvious career choice of all Christian women who desire to please the Father and the Son. The scriptures are very specific to woman. Love your husband. Love your children. Keep your home. Care for the poor. Another chapter of scripture, Proverbs 31, directed towards women explains how she might be more effective and frugal in accomplishing Titus 2 and 1 Timothy 5.

Lately, I've heard much talk about finding your true mission; that a woman's true mission cannot be "just" homemaking. Nay-sayers warn that spending your life homemaking, which God commands, will make a woman fail her mission.  How a can woman loving and serving within the walls of her home be squandering her mission? It IS her mission according to scripture. When she does not devote herself to her family and home, these things most important things suffer.

I'm not sure I could have come to love serving God, if I had not first weathered the storms learning to serve in my home. Serving is hard for selfish mortals. On every hand these days, we are taught to discover ourselves and fulfill our own  desires without a care for anyone else.  While this is an interesting concept, it is not from God. If it is not from God, it is from Satan, the father of all lies. Therefore the command to woman to be keepers at home and love their families is a training ground for service, a recipe for learning to please God, a model for enduring to the end, and an atmosphere for becoming true disciples of Jesus Christ. Is not that the reason we are here on earth?