Humility: A Fruit of Love

Humility: A Fruit of Love

By Dwayna Litz

© LTW Worldwide 2005

We all had dinner together last Saturday night, and I noticed my brother sat at the head of the table. It is symbolic of something much more significant. My brother and his wife understand that there are different roles in the home. That does not mean my brother is "abusive" in any way to his wife. He loves her like Christ loves the church, and she, in turn, lets him lead. It is a beautiful dance with one leading and one following with three beautiful children changing the pace from legato to allegro! No one is mistreated, like the feminists would like to make us all believe, in such a structure. My brother and his wife make decisions together, but he gets the final say, because he is a covering for the home. It is beautiful. It makes it hard, though, as a single woman, these days in this androgynous culture, because most men don't know how to lead! They want some woman to lead them. As a single woman, I have found that it is crucial for me to marry a man who I can trust to lead me well. I have known nice men, and I have known abusive men. Despite the men who are selfish and would take advantage of that authority in the home (i.e., "abusive"), it does not mean that this plan is not from God. It is a reflection on someone's character, and the Bible does not need to be re-interpreted, but both men and women need to repent for not submitting to God through assuming their proper place in the home. Even in the 21st Century, the Bible is still the Bible, and the Truth has not changed. If a man does not know how to love a woman as Christ loves the church, he should not get married. The husband and wife should serve one another in encouragement and love, but in the ordained structure (which goes back to Genesis) the man is the leader of the home, and humility is still a fruit of true love.

With my niece, Jordan, at her one year birthday party (October 8, 2005)

The Bewitching Promise
Peter Jones, Spirit Wars, p. 253:
In one of the most politically incorrect statements of all time, the inspired Apostle Paul declared: "Adam was not the one deceived. It was the woman." (1 Timothy 2:14; 2 Cor. 11:3). Paul surely does not mean that Eve was intellectually inferior, morally weak and spiritually immature. Rather he sees that in her role, so essential to the project of civilization, and in her function as "helpmeet," so crucial for the revelation of the trinitarian God, Eve was exposed with particular force to the bewitching promise of self-liberation. (1 Tim. 2:15). How clever the Tempter's misuse of Scripture. And Hollywood's, too. In her CD It's A Man's World: Oh Really? popular singer, Cher, kneels in a seductive pose, her jet-black hair intertwined with a green serpent wrapped seductively around her body, clutching in her long fingers a bright-red apple. The modern Eve eats, convinced she is clarifying the true intentions of the Gospel for radical liberation. But if the original sound of the bite reverberated through the cavernous halls of the universe, signaling the imminent Fall from paradise, what will be the significance of the feminist liturgical sound bite of the eschatological "re-eating of the apple," if not the final catastrophic disobedience and deconstruction of the race?