A WIFE’S PURPOSE
God’s original purpose for creating a woman was so that man (Adam) would have a
companion to share his life with. Secondly, her purpose was to populate the earth with
people made in the image of God. (Genesis 2:20-25).
We all want someone to share life’s experiences with. Adam was no different. All the
animals had a mate to share life with, but not Adam. He had no one to laugh with,
become joyful with, play with in the Garden of Eden, and no one to encourage him. For
example when he was naming the animals, there was no one there to say, “hey, that
was a really great name for that animal calling him a zebra, it looks like a zebra!”
It is so much easier to work at a job for 8 hours a day and then come home to someone
who really appreciates the fact that you went to work for them. Our men need this.
They are just as insecure as we are and it is not in their nature to express those
feelings. So they need someone with insight who can see and under gird those things
that they do for us or on our behalf with appreciation and praise. Adam needed
someone to say, “That’s great honey!” Do YOU like to be appreciated verbally? Sure
you do, and so do they.
So God put Adam to sleep and then took one of his ribs from his side. The word RIB=
side. God did take one of Adam’s ribs to create woman from and thus women are a
literal part of man.
The male has the macho part of his nature which enables him to work and toil, till the
soil, be brave and courageous, to be strong physically, fight lions and bears (or traffic
and etc today) and to protect us. Thank God for these qualities that He gave to men.
We are there beside them to encourage and love and appreciate them for these
qualities. When we appreciate them and what they are doing, it seems like they are also
relieved of physical stress and tension by our love and concern. They need to come
home to be loved by and appreciated. They need to feel needed and wanted. They
need to have a home to look forward to coming home to at the end of the day to receive
him. If it is possible in your situation, have a nice meal for him to look forward to.
This may seem like little things, but they are the little things that God uses to refurbish
and rebuild his LIFE up with. These are the kinds of things that make life bearable the
next day, because here is someone who really cares about me and getting me ready to
go out there and do it all over again he thinks in his mind.
Many broken marriages come from women who feel they have a demeaning role in life.
They do not realize that they possess special qualities put into them by God in order to
fulfill their role as wives; which is so great and important, and which God wants to use to
give to others, particularly their husband. Just knowing there is someone at home caring
to prepare a favorite meal does far more for your man than any meal ever did for his
stomach.
Of course, in today’s society where most women have to work, it cannot always be this
way, but we women still need to find ways to make our men feel welcome, loved and
appreciated.
It is a supernatural ministry that we have which is expressed in these little ways. We
must weigh what we call menial tasks against college degrees. The world sees the
degrees, titles, large amounts of wages earned. The world does not see things the
same way that God sees them.
Those menial ways of giving of ourselves are the things that prove to the people that
you are endeavoring to minister to, that you really do CARE! It is the CARE that touches
the person’s heart. It takes food to keep the person alive, but it’s the care that brings the
person we love to fulfillment.
In this passage one of the greatest things that God ever did was take woman out of
Adam. He could have formed her right before His eyes, but Adam would never, ever
have the same feelings for her that he did if she wasn’t from himself (a part of him).
Possibly the process was not without pain to Adam. After surgery it takes awhile for the
place that was cut open to feel right again. If a rib is taken out of our side, there is
soreness. So perhaps she became all the more dear to him if he were a bit sore. Just
like in childbirth, the pain causes us to have a bonding with the child because of all that
we went through to have the child.
God call Eve woman because she was taken out of the man. God went on to say,
“therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and
they shall be one flesh!” It is very important when someone is actually a part of us.
When a man a woman are both functioning in one accord, each one fulfilling his or her
role that God gave them to fulfill, it is a beautiful and rewarding thing. The protective
role that God put into a man to take care of and protect his wife and children happens,
and the woman loves, cares for and ministers to her husband’s needs. Each one
possessing qualities that the other will never possess, and that unless we both give to
one another what we have, we can never become one.
We need to see that being these to our husbands is a strength to our own nation, as we
are willing to see ourselves as willing to GIVE of ourselves in these ways. God is then
able to use these things to make strong men and women in generations to come.
There is great power in Prayer! Do you believe God hears you and hears you the first
time? If so, then when you see something in Scripture that needs to be changed in your
home, come to the Lord and say, “Lord I am willing to change but I ask You to speak
through my husband and show us how to work it out.”
This exhibits faith in the Lord, and trust that He will work through your husband as head
of the family. But remember, if your husband does bring up that very subject that you
were praying about, don’t boast that you knew about it first. Let him be the one who
came up with the idea, and then thank the Lord that He answered your prayers. See we
have a behind the scenes role ---your comforting him, preparing for him and loving him
all seem to be a behind the scene role.
God has a perceptiveness built in us women that He wants to use to inspire, motive and
encourage our husbands to become what God wants our husbands to become and to
assume their rightful role. Our inner perceptiveness that God give to us is something He
uses as appropriate help mates for them.
We need their strengths (because remember we are created as a “weaker vessel” than
they are). We need their qualities for our well being, and they need certain qualities that
we have to give to them for their well being as well. He has needs that only YOU, his
wife, can give to him. You are not giving to him things that you do for him, or help him
with, or prepare for him, in order to manipulate him to get what you want. You are using
your gifts to minister to him because you love him and want to give your gifts to him even
as he gives his gifts and ministries to you. That keeps our minds in proper perspective.
The word Help Meet in Hebrew:
= 2 Words = qualified (suitable)
fitting
proper
right
for the man of your life --- and each one is different. So there are women with different
gifts and abilities to meet the needs of each husband in a different way.
The Rib On A Boat:
The rib on a boat helps it to weather the storm. In calamity the woman’s tenderness
strengthens the man and helps to keep him from breaking down. God made you a
strong support! According to the particular needs of your husband.
What God wants from Us:
He wants us to be someone to make the marriage be worthwhile. Proverbs 12:4 says,
“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.” Virtuous means patterned her life after
God’s pattern for her life.
Bone of my Bone:
Equals the moral structure a person. If we humiliate them, they can turns hard and tuff.
God’s woman is on her husband’s side! We must realize how really ONE we are with
him. Do you believe this is true? KNOW it, conceive it as with pregnancy. We must let
this concept take birth in us. In so doing, this belief takes hold in our hearts and begins
to grow. We can either conceive the truth or be exposed to it. Are we going to walk the
will of God for a woman or just be exposed to it?
Let us lay hold of these truths, seeing ourselves and our roles in a new light, and seeing
our husbands in a new light as well. No longer to be criticized, no longer to condemned,
but to appreciated, loved, complimented and built up with our words and our deeds
towards them. With our attitudes being that which we had when we first married them.
The man was created to be the Priest of the home and he is not able to be this unless
the woman creates an atmosphere in which this can happen. He was created for this
purpose, and we want to be used by the Lord to encourage them and help them achieve
their highest goal in life.
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