Priorities of a Godly Woman

Titus 2:3-5: Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be reviled.

As a woman striving to be a Titus 2 woman in today's world, I must be reminded of the God given priorities that are in Scripture. Seeking the Lord must be our first desire and we do that by obeying His direct words found here in Titus chapter 2. The role of women is not a negotiable or controversial idea for believers. It is clearly expressed...so how are you doing in the area of loving your husbands? Hopefully these words will encourage and challenge you as they have me over the years.

First, wives are to love their husbands. This command is simple and ambiguous. There are no conditions or exceptions. It is not simply that love of husbands is a virtue but that not loving them is a sin. Paul is not referring to romantic or sexual love, although that has an important and proper place in marriage. He is speaking of committed love that godly wives choose to have for their husbands, just as godly husbands choose to have for their wives (Ephesians 5:25, 28). Philandros is a noun, here rendered to love… husbands, and refers to willing, determined love that is not based on a husband's worthiness but on God's command and that is extended by a wife's affectionate and obedient heart. Even unlovable, uncaring, unfaithful, and ungrateful husbands are to be loved. This sort of love of husbands and wives for each other involves unqualified devotedness and is a friendship that is strong and deep. And when a wife does not truly love her husband she must, in obedience to the Lord, train herself to love him.

~Bible Bulletin Board:John MacArthur