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Titus 2:4

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands,a nd to love their children.

This is speaking of the older women teaching the younger women to be mature and and have self control and not showy. To love their and husbands and children. I feel it is necessary to comment on Sober because we are not taught by our elders to be mature and have self control as women, we see women beingthe complete opposite. God has a different design for us. We as wives and mothers are to be an example to our daughters to be respectful to our husbands and not losing control of our tempers, not putting on attire to draw attention to ourselves in a manner for men to stare. We need not to go out on the street and start yelling at someone for not turning their turning signal on, we need to have self control. The mothers and grandmothers need to teach this. Look at the women in the early television shows always supporing her husband, making him his meal befor ehe arrives so it will be ready for him, cleaning up after him, helping him take off his shoes or taking his coat, what has happend to that lady. the children in those shows would always be very respectfull yes sir, yes mam, they would listen when asked to do so the first time. Now, fast forward 60 years, the kids are running the house the husbands sitting on the couch while the wife is out working. What happend. Older women quit teaching the younger women how to Love their husbands and children. Its more than just say "I love you" its putting those bodies, minds, and hearts to work. Before my husband leaves for work we pray everyday, I put his jacket on him and walk him to the car and I love to do this. Sometimes he demand that I stay in bed because I look to cute to get out of bed and he will tuck me in tighter and we will pray, it goes both ways. When we do for them, they will do for us. Not right off the bat, keep that in mind. We must Love them. Love is defined best in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. I never knew that I could Love my husband as much as I do. When I allowed God to teach me how to be a better wife he taught me what he can do. I started reading Proverbs 31 everyday, it teaches us a model wife. Her roles and duties, what is said about her etc. God began showign me in scripture what I could do too! Love your husbands go out of your way to get fixed up for him before he arrives, clean your house, tell him you love him, pray with him, run his bath water or shower, lay out his clothes, these are simple things to do. Now, loving our children, what can you do to show your children you love them. Read a book with them, turn off the computer or tv and play a board game, spend quality time with them, let them know you care, get out scripture and read it together ask them what they think about it.

The list goes on and on, its called quality time, give your family attention.

Titus 2 Breakdown

We must not go around speaking evil of othersand must not be heavy drinkers.

Now, how many of us ladies think of our motherson the phone saying " Pray for Johnny, Why? I know his wife is just been awful to him, and his kids are taking every penny and his bills are way past due and I also heard that the bank is taking his house but what else has gone wrong?" Now, Why on earth was all of that necessary, I believe we could have prayed for God to move on behalf of Johnny. I believe a prayer request is a powerful request that needs to be met with prayer not gossip. How many of us were raised in a home that your parents would say its not gossiping I am just merely stating a fact. Please do not continue this pattern, for the sake of our own lives and those living with us. Now, we as homemakers, wives, mothers, and militrary spouses can all use a good conversation on the telephone just to break up our day, it gets stressful cooking, cleaning, paying the bills, doing all the grocery shopping, laundry, and the list goes on. Be careful when you pick up that phone it can good or bad. Choose wisely what you are going to talk about. We do not want to speak evil of someone, even though we are very angry with someone, remeber its not them we are fighting it is Satan. God will take of them. Rememeber the old saying "If aint got nothing good to say don't say it at all." We need to set an example in our home for our children. When someone calls you and wants to Gossip, stop them. Tell them instead of adding fuel to the fire it would be best to just stop and pray for this person that Satan would stop using them. Do not allow ourselves to be evil speakers we want to what is good and acceptable unto the Lord. If you give Satan a little room to use you he begins taking over little by little in our lives. Allow God to use you for his Glory!

Secondly, I want to address us as ladies being heavy drinkers. Stay away from it ladies, this does no good at all for christ, his body (the church), our own bodies and our Marriages! We can not be a good wife and mother if we are heavy drinkers. We must take our calling as wives and mothers serious. Do we want to put up with a drunk lazy husband, no. Why should he put up with a wife who can not control her tongue, take care of him or their home. The children would not have a proper view of a wife or mother. How many marriages fall apart because of alcohol according to www.jsad.com per 1 liter of alcohol per capita divorce raises 20%. You tell me is it worth your marriage. Would we want our sons to marry a woman who drinks a lot or would we like our daughters to be heavy drinkers. God has laid out our plan as his people and it is so easy to follow if we will just submit ourselves. I know this is not an easy task but it gets easier the more you do it. Allow your husband to lead your home, follow him and help him all your days, and teach your children the ways of the Lord. Continue to study Titus 2 as we dive into it!

Titus 2

I look at the Titus 2 woman in the new testament and I think to myself what has happend to this woman. Titus 2:3-5 Similarily, teach the older women to live in a way that is appropriate for someone serving the Lord. They must not go around speaking evil of others and must not be heavy drinkers. Instead, they should teach others what is good. These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, to live wisely and be pure, to take care of their homes, to do good, and to be submissiveto their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God.

I love this passage of scripture it tells all women what they should do and it can't be much more basic than this. Our generation of wives do not understand how this could even be because we have been raised to be rebellious toward our husbands and we show disrespect toward our husbands in front of our children and people outside of the home.I whole heartedly believe that God can restore what has been lost. I wish the ladies in my church and my mother would have taught me to be submissive my husband. Many women hear "Obey your husband" and think Oh great here we go again with one of those wackos but I looked up Obey and submissive and I found that it to be very interesting. Submission is to be compliant and meek. Obey means to give in, surrender, do what is expected, yield to, pay close attention to, conform and adapt. Now replace the word obey with any of these phrases or words and see what you get. Yield to your husband, do what is expected to your husband, pay close attention to your husband. Come on ladies its a great thing to Obey your husband. When we don't do these things yield to them, conform and adapt what are we doing, we are rebelling and what is rebellion? Rebellion is as bad as witchcraft in Gods eyes according to 1 Samual 15:23. Ladies I encourage all of you to obey your husbands and if your husband is a sinner continue to live what is acceptable in God's eyes and God will give you strength. My next blog I will continue on with this verse to please study this scripture with me. Until next tiem God be With you!