God's High Calling For Men

This is a follow-up to my last post. God has called men and women to do different things in the home and in the church. It does not lesson the value of women that our call is different. Women are called to manage their home-love their husbands and love -teach and train their children; and to teach and train a younger generation of women. Titus 2:3-5.

Men are called to be leaders-both in the church and in their families. When I see women pastoring Churches or leading men in Bible Study-my heart is grieved. Women have so much to do. Why do we women sometimes find it difficult to stay within the boundaries of God's call to us?



So this is what the Scripture says about what men are called to do: and ladies they have it harder than we do. Men are responsible to God for leading their families and to lead Christ's Church. They will give an account to the Lord of their faithfulness in this task. We must be careful as women and wives to make it easy for men to lead. We need to pray more and talk less. We need to be mindful of this passage in Heb. 13:17. I truly believe submission is an attitude of the heart before it is ever worked out in the life. All of you  remember the story of the child who was made to sit down. He told his parents that he was sitting down on the outside-but standing up on the inside. That is an amusing story and easy to identify as a lack of heart submission. It has not been an easy road for a strong minded woman like me to make it easy for men to lead. But I have gotten there. God's will is good and perfect in this. I am a joyful follower of male leadership and I teach young women the same. When God's Word is followed and obeyed in matters like this-everyone has peace!

Men are to Lead
1 Tim 3:1-10
It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,  not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity  (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),  and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil.  And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.   
 Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain, but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach.

 
 Men are to love
Eph 5:25-29
 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,  that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,  so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.   In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.  
Col 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
ESV


It would be a foolish man indeed who refused to love his wife as God has called him to do. A loved woman is a woman who is usually ready to follow. Men and women both have a high and holy calling. Let us be busy doing what God has called us to.