Prepare for an Important Career
Filed under {!-- ra:0000000051d30679000000000be9383a --}{if 'Prepare for an Important Career' == '52home' && category_name == '52home'} Singleness {if:else} Singleness {/if}Just to recap, the best deals of the single life we’ve looked at so far:
Pursue Undivided Devotion
Become a Theologian
Help the Men
Choose Friends Carefully
Nurture Children
Our sixth suggestion for how to best use your years as a single: Prepare to be a wife and mother.
Now I realize that not every woman will get married and have children; but truth is, most women will be wives and mothers someday. And for the majority of you who get married and raise children, you will spend a considerable portion of your lives in the homemaking profession—from twenty or thirty to upwards of fifty years or more. That’s no small amount of time!
And the commands in Scripture to love, follow and help a husband, to raise children for the glory of God, and to manage a home from which the gospel goes forth encompass a vast responsibility. The role of wife and mother requires an extremely diverse array of skills—everything from management abilities to knowledge of health and nutrition, to interior decorating capabilities, to childhood development expertise. If you are to be effective in this role, then you must study these subjects and many more.
A career as a wife and mother demands considerable expertise, may encompass decades of your life, and has the potential to spread the gospel to your family, church, community, and future generations. Now that’s worth preparing for, wouldn’t you say?