A Biblical Way To View Women-Part 2
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Andy Stanley, and the scripture is 1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
Peter writes this down because he wants men to assign to women honor. All that the weaker partner meant was that the men could probably beat the women in an arm wrestling match. He's not talking about women being less intelligent or important. This was in a world where might made right. What the strongest or most powerful said was the right thing to do. Peter is saying, "Men, you are to use your power for the sake of those that lack power. Leverage your physical, financial and influential strength to help the weak. If you are a married man, you make sure that you leverage your power not for your sake but for her sake. The women of your life answer to the same heavenly Father that you do. Be careful how you treat her. God will not answer your prayers if you don't treat women right. Your responsibility is to honor and treat them with respect because they are daughters of your heavenly Father. You are accountable to God for how you treat them."
Men, you are going to have to renew your mind to think correctly about women, and you aren't going to get much help from culture. If you have on your playlist any song that refers to a woman as a bitch or a whore, erase it today from your playlist forever. In every country where there has been a genocide or slavery, it has begun when they have dehumanized an individual by ascribing a label or a name to that person. In Rwanda the Hutus said that the Tutsis were simply cockroaches, so they decided that they could stomp them out because they weren't even people. Over 800,000 people died. If you continue to entertain yourself with terminology and phrases that talks about women as bitches and whores, that is how you are going to give yourself permission to treat them.
Every time that you sit down and entertain yourselves with pornography and pictures of naked women you are at school, and you are learning three very important lessons. Lesson number one is that a real body isn't good enough. Lesson number two is that one body isn't good enough. Lesson number three is that your wife's body isn't good enough. There are married men that are confused as to what is going on inside of them. The problem is that for years they were going to school learning these lessons. If you are single and look forward to a great romantic relationship with a woman down the road, the best thing that you can do is to check out of this school. This school sets you up with extraordinary disappointment.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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