Above all, our role in love is to trust and obey!
No confession of loving laud
However great or grand
Absolves obedience to God
The two go hand in hand
No matter who we are, my love
However great or small
No one is super-star enough
To disregard love’s call
True love is not proven in speech
But with meek reverence
Love is the action that will teach
Humble obedience
The role we all are called into
Begins at Calvary
Where love bears witness to One who
Taught through humility
Do not let love despair, dear one
His commands are not hard
When we keep our eyes fixed on
Love’s Leading Hands, nail-scarred
When we receive God's gift of grace
When hearts meeken in awe
How sacred is our perfect place
As love fulfills God’s law
© Janet Martin
Food for Thought;
In today's churches
Are there too many silent men because
there are too many speaking women
or
are there too many speaking women because
there are too many silent men?
Did feminism progress in the church because
good women stepped in where good men did not
or did good men step aside/get 'nudged' aside
in the order of their God-ordained rank
when women whose intentions were for good
stepped out of their God-ordained order?
Male or female, we have equal value in the eyes of God
but we have very sacred and differing roles!
Titus 2:1-8
You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.
2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect,
self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live,
not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled and pure,
to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands,
so that no one will malign the word of God.
6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good.
In your teaching show integrity, seriousness
8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned,
so that those who oppose you may be ashamed
because they have nothing bad to say about us.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God;
for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word;
and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
He who does not love Me does not keep My words;
and the word which you hear is not Mine
but the Father's who sent Me.
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