5/13/24

1 Timothy 2:9-10 NASB95 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

Last Sunday was Mother's Day. We recognized all mothers in our church service. When we look at the qualities of mothers who are honored, it is always for their nurture, love, discipline, faithfulness, witness, guidance, godliness, dedication, obedience, service, and sacrifice.

I have never heard a person honor their mother for her deception, defiance, neglect, unfaithfulness, selfishness, laziness, disregard, and tempting nature.

Paul says it is good for a woman to adorn herself with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly. He is speaking of showing herself as having godly value instead of revealing herself as having sexual value. Paul says Don't attempt to make yourself tempting with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments. It is not the braided hair or adornments that are bad; it is the attempt to appear seductive.

A woman's worth is not in seducing a man but in being his helpmate in life and childrearing.

I am extremely attracted to my wife, but it is her desire to help me and her children that I don't ever want to be without. It is her nurturing and her compassion that makes me want to hold her and thank her. It is her service and sacrifice that makes me honor her. It is her obedience to God and her desire to be submissive to me that makes me desire her to be my partner, my equal, and my other half of our one flesh. It is her godliness that makes me thankful she is the mother of our children, and the love of my life. It is all of this that makes me attracted to her. These things make me desire and love her more than her beautiful appearance does.

Ladies, God designed you to be so much more than sexual. While sexuality is part of who you are on earth, it is not what makes a man desire you for life, and it is not what makes a child honor you. Paul says it is "rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness."

You can be lusted after for a time and then pitied, or you can be desired and honored by your husband and children for life.

Husbands and children let your wife and mother know you honor them for their Godliness.

I praise the Lord and honor my Godly wife and my Godly mother!

Love Bro. Scott