Do You Like Being a Wife?

I am joining Julie over at Come, Have a Peace for Marriage Mondays!

Last Wednesday, Oprah's topic was "Marriage Around the World", so I DVR'd it with interest. When Elizabeth Gilbert (Author of Eat, Pray, Love) came on, she shared her "insightful" view on marriage which Oprah endorsed. "She predicts the dawn of a new kind of American marriage that she dubbed the "wifeless marriage." "All my best friends want to be married," she said, "But none of them wants to be a wife. "That's because being a wife is a sucky job."(please excuse the foul word *The Washington Scene Website.)

Is this what we have come to in America? No one wants to be a wife? We now want "wifeless marriages"? This cultural lie is the underlying root of many of our marital troubles and will cause our daughters to fall into the pit of despair if we do not teach them this is false and from the enemy. This lie that a "wifeless marriage" is better than doing the job of a wife encourages our daughters to:

1. Cohabitate with the man they love, rather than marry him, thus breaking God's commands to not have relations outside of marriage.

2. If our daughters do marry, it discourages them from taking on the traditional role of a wife - remember it's a sucky job!

3. If our daughters do take on the traditional role of being a wife... there's a stigma. You have the job that nobody wants!

A "wifeless marriage" is a perverted view of the glorious role God has ordained women to hold in marriage! And it's a sad trend we face today as there are less wives now than there have ever been, due to cohabitation and divorce.

Do you like being a wife? Is it a precious title you hold? If you are married and you do not like this title, you WILL face marital troubles. Because your husband needs a wife, not another husband in the marriage.

According to Proverbs 31:10 - A good wife is of exceptional worth. We hold a vital role in the life of our husbands. God said in Genesis 2:18 "It is not good for a man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." There is nothing on earth more fulfilling than the intimacy I share with my husband and the day our wedding bells rang - I was thrilled to be receiving the title "wife".

I refuse to be scorned by this culture. The idea of a "wifeless marriage" causes social confusion, discontentment and dissatisfaction in women and I will not surrender to this fallacy! God created the woman with her heart rooted in helping her husband. He has given us the innate abilities to be caretakers and home builders and when a woman builds her house in wisdom and has a husband who like the Proverbs 31 woman, rises and calls her blessed she has achieved the finest accomplishment on earth for God's glory.

So wives, embrace your noble and holy role and do not surrender to the enemy's lies!

Walk with the King!

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