“Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in His ways. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.” Psalm 128:1, 3-4 NKJV
As image-bearers of the Creator, women have been blessed by God with the stewardship of being wives and mothers (Gen.1:27-28). Perhaps the most controversial truth of the irreplaceable nature of marriage is that God’s biblical design upholds the glory of motherhood. Radical feminism and the Marxist agenda of woke paganism are in rebellion against the beauty, nobility, and glory of being a wife and mother, which the Holy Scriptures affirm with the utmost honor and dignity in the sight of God (Psa. 128:3; Pro. 31:10-31; 1 Tim.2:15; 2 Tim.1:5; 3:15; Titus 2:3-5).
Regardless of what the sirens of the age assert, only biological women have children, and God’s Word lauds the blessedness of the fruitful womb (Psa. 127:3-5; 139:13; Mal. 2:15). The irreplaceable nature of marriage builds civilization, fills this world with image-bearing worshippers of the one true and living God, and advances the cause of Christ to the ends of the earth beginning right at home.
While on a ministry adventure trip, some time ago, a young couple invited me to their home for supper. After we enjoyed a hearty meal of chicken enchiladas, Joe and Heather (not their real names) shared about their upbringing and back story. It turns out that they had been born and raised in New England before meeting in college. Joe had been reared in a type of Eastern Orthodox religious tradition but Heather was brought up atheist believing in “science” (evolutionary naturalism). She explained that her communications major trained her to articulate the Marxist ideologies they were indoctrinated into at this progressively liberal college out east.
After getting married, Joe and Heather moved to a city in the Pacific Northwest that is notorious for being a bastion of far-left secularism because she described this as just what young liberals do. Through the course of events, God providentially used the so-called “peaceful protests” of BLM to beckon to their hearts. By this time, they were expecting a baby and questioned whether or not a city where a stack of Bibles lit on fire in the street was the kind of place they really wanted to raise their daughter. In fact, Joe even came across the charred remains of a New Testament on a sidewalk and suffice it to say that he continued thinking deeply about the spiritual issues of life and death along with time and eternity. Complications with her pregnancy were used of the Lord to stir Heather’s heart to take stock of the same. Not too long after that, they moved out of the city to a generally more sensible part of that same region of the country and purchased some property on the side of a mountain. Their homestead farm of sorts was a beautiful enclave nestled into that hillside with tremendous potential for carving out a flourishing family life. Eventually they landed at a solid Bible-teaching church nearby where they were growing in grace and knowledge of their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Their testimony was so beautiful and precious that I found myself getting teary-eyed, especially as Heather proceeded to share the aspirations of her heart. Despite being brought up as an atheist in a family steeped in evolution and college educated with a baccalaureate degree in communications, her heart’s desire was to be a stay-at-home mom who intentionally trains her children in the pathways of truth and righteousness. I wholeheartedly affirmed this passion and encouraged her that whereas the world disparages such virtue in the name of merely being “barefoot and pregnant” which she incidentally was (expecting their second child), the Bible lauds the glory of motherhood. Further, I shared that despite whatever the world may say, she is building civilization right alongside her knight in shining armor for the glory, praise, and honor of Almighty God.
May the Lord raise up a multitude of women like Heather whose hearts desire is to champion the glory of motherhood and therefore invest the stewardship of their gifts, talents, and abilities to advance the cause of Christ to the ends of the earth…beginning right at home!
P.S. Here’s a great resource that speaks to this very issue
