Genesis tells us that God created woman to be a compliment to man. To complete the man. If you read Genesis and the story of creation you will see that there was only one time where God says that it wasn't good. That was the day that He created man alone, God immediately rectified this problem by creating the woman to compliment/complete the man. So what has happened so drastically that we as men look at our wives as more of a possession and or servant and not as an equal.
The fact is there are very few instances in the Bible where the woman is not equal to the man. In fact in almost every case we are (both men and women) created equal, and seen as equal in Christ. Some men don't see this and take advantage of what they perceive their station in life to be to make their wives seem almost like a slave. If you are one of those men, I beg you to please go back and read the Bible a little to see exactly what we as men were commanded by God to do.
In the beginning God gave us men the charge/commandment to be the spiritual head of our house. What exactly does this mean? Does this mean that everything that I say my wife has to immediately agree with and do? I personally do not believe so. What I believe it means is that it is our responsibility as men to take charge of the house and act in the best interest of the household. This does not give us free reign to take advantage of that commandment. Take a look at the story of Adam and Eve. What is widely known is that Eve was approached by the Satan (the serpent) and was deceived into taking a bite of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. We also know that it was commanded by God that they could eat from any tree but that one. But lets actually take a look and see who is truly at fault. Right now all the men reading this are cheering saying, "yeah if it hadn't been for Eve we wouldn't be in this situation." Is this true, lets take a look.
And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die." (Genesis 2:17) Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his compliment." (Genesis 2:18) So here we see that God commanded Adam not to eat from that tree, then He realized that it was not good for man to be alone and created his compliment. The next few verses go into the creation of the woman from the rib of man and so on. What I see is important is that when we get into the temptation story, God instructed only Adam and not Eve, it was Adams responsibility to impress upon his wife the importance of not eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Which if you read the text in Genesis 3:2-3 you can see that Adam had informed Eve about this, but did he truly stress the importance of this command. I don't think he did because as we men like to look over in this story, Adam was present throughout the entire process. "So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Even though Satan targeted Eve he did so in the presence of Adam, it was Adams responsibility to stand up and take the God given leadership role and stop this action and he failed, and for that we all are born into sin because of his failure.
Why did I chose to write this you might ask? Well that is simple, I have been going through and trying to figure out exactly what it means to take the leadership role in my home. My wife has been studying and trying her hardest to assist me in this endeavor and let me tell you it is not easy. I can say though that if it was meant to be easy then God would not have been so emphatic when He commanded us men to take this role. I thank God everyday for giving me a loving and caring wife, who through her own pains continues to push me to live up the role that God has commanded me to. I do not do this with hopes of controlling my wife, but to protect her and complete us the way God intended. I encourage any of the men who might read this to think about that the next time they decide that they are going to get something because they are the bread winner, and deny their wives some simple things that they want. Our job is to protect and provide for the families, not to provide for ourselves and then our families. When we get it wrong, we are disobeying God's plan and to do that is just plain sinful.
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