Sorry I've been gone a week! Life gets busy! Maybe I was avoiding the part where the first woman ("mother of all the living" 3:20) blew it. Yep, our sex kind of started this fun path we are on by seeing, biting and taking the husband with her. You may look, but you may not bite. You bite, you pay....a hefty price. Women don't always realize their heavy influence on a man. Then there are some women who know their power of persuasion so well, they manipulate their husbands like puppets. Women are the master manipulators. I've known a few in my time....and still know some. Manipulation is a work of the flesh used to seduce and get your way. Beware!!! Whether you like it or not, God placed man in authority over woman. I mean, look at the curse God placed on her in 3:16 -"Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you". Though another 3:16 (John 3:16) redeemed us from the curse, we still are to be submitted to our husbands. I actually think men have the harder job - to love us as they love their own flesh. Study love sometime and you will see it is a really self sacrificing proposition. I say let him be in charge. Being in charge isn't all it's cracked up to be. I love to have my husband take care of me. Here is a challenge for you girls. Look up 1 Peter 3: 1-6. Meditate on that one for a while. With this sin of disobedience to God, Satan gained a stronghold in this world. Everyone (including him) were promptly removed from the garden. Satan is now given the title of "prince of the world" in John 14:30 and "god of this age" in 2 Corinthians 4;4. But again, through the second Adam (Jesus) we can actually get great victory over this horrible world prince. It takes faith - firm faith. But with God..all things are possible!
Life is much more peaceful when the husband is the head of the household! God's plan for the family was perfectly designed! The world offers options that seem more appealing but are not God inspired!
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