Titus MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Macarthur New Testament Commentary Serie) by MacArthur John F

Author:MacArthur, John F [MacArthur, John F]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 1996-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Fifth, married young women are to be workers at home. One of the hardest things for many contemporary wives to do is be satisfied with being a homemaker. Part of the reason is that modern appliances and other conveniences greatly simplify and reduce housework, and time that is not used for something constructive inevitably produces boredom, dissatisfaction, and often increased temptations.

But the greatest pressure on young wives today is the saturation of our culture by the ungodly precepts of radical feminists, who believe that wives being homebound is an egregious form of bondage by males, from which all women need to be freed. They unequivocally insist that women should be as free as men to work outside the home at whatever job and to whatever extent they want.

For many years in the United States, more than 50 percent of mothers with children under six years of age have held jobs outside the home. For those with older children, the percentages are much higher. It is estimated that, by the year 2000, 90 percent of all women between the ages of 16 and 65 will have jobs outside the home. That trend is frightening even to many secular observers, who recognize the damage being done to young children who spend a large part of their time with and receive a large part of their training, or lack of training, from adults other than their parents. Statistics also make clear that extramarital affairs increase exponentially with women who work outside the home, simply because of greatly increased exposure to temptation. In addition to that, they often find themselves under the authority of a man other than their husband (cf. Eph. 5:22, especially the word “own) and in an environment that is antithetical to Christian standards of morality and sexual roles.

It is tragic that many young mothers are forced to hold outside jobs because their husbands have died, been imprisoned, or have left them and pay no child support, or because they have never been married and their own families are unable, or unwilling, to help. It is also tragic that many churches and Christian friends forsake their obligation to help young women who find themselves in such straits. And when the mother is away from home, younger children most often are cared for away from home. They need to be at home as much as possible and not be deprived of their mother’s companionship and instruction.

Women who have no children or whose children are grown obviously have fewer obligations in the home and therefore much more time available, and the point is not so much that a woman’s place is in the home as that her responsibility is for the home. She may have a reasonable outside job or choose to work in the church or to minister in a Christian organization, a hospital, a school, or many other ways. But the home is a wife’s special domain and always should be her highest priority. That is where she is able to

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