 Passing The
Baton....embracing godly womanhood!
When I was a young woman of 25 with 4
children under 5 years of age, I sometimes
felt that my life was boring and that I
could be doing something more valuable with
my life than “just housekeeping” and looking
after babies!
My girl-friends were still single or had no
children, and their lives seemed far more
interesting and exciting than mine. I had been
married at 16 years of age, straight from the
schoolroom to the nursery, and I felt old before
my time. That restlessness of adolescence still
hung over my life like a cloud that robbed me of
my joy.
Now I did love my babies and I did like
keeping house, but there was something missing
from my life- a sense of joy and purpose. It was
a difficult and unpleasant place to be in- and
being there made me feel guilty because I felt I
wasn’t a good mother by feeling like that.
My youngest baby turning 2 was a turning
point in my own life, for my loved Aunt died of
liver cancer at that time, and for the first
time in my life, I seriously questioned God,
eternity, sin and where I would be if I were to
die. From this sad time, I turned to Jesus and
acknowledged all my past mistakes, sin and
miserable thoughts. I literally felt re-born!
I started going to church and was blessed by
being discipled by some older lovely women. They
shared with me the high calling of being a
Christian wife, mother and homemaker, and as
they shared with me, I observed their lives.
They were fulfilled, productive and happy wives,
mothers and homemakers. I came to see the role
that God had called me in was the role which
suited me best and is what I believed, and still
believe, to be the choice role in life.
Almost immediately, my life took on new
meaning and my family benefitted from this in my
increased patience, diligence, nurturing and
joyfullness. Not only was I born-again and a
child of God, but I literally glowed in my
new-found purpose in life. I fell in love with
my children all over again and then gradually
became a truly submissive wife.
Twenty-six years later, I thank the women who
lived as Titus 2 women, and taught me the value
of marriage, motherhood and homemaking. By
obeying God and living the Word, they have
passed on the baton of godly womanhood and
blessed me. My prayer is that older sisters in
the LORD take the Word of God seriously and
become zealous teachers of the younger women.
Only through them obeying the Word can the
younger sisters be taught His Ways, and become
true blessings to their husbands and families.
© Glenys Robyn Hicks
“The aged women likewise, that they be in
behaviour as becometh holiness, not false
accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of
good things; that they may teach the young women
to be sober, to love their husbands, to love
their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers
at home, good, obedient to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed.” Titus
2: 3-5 |
