February 9, 2007

• A Titus Two Example

  We left bright and early this morning before the sun came up to drive my father and mother-in-love back to the airport. We were blessed to have them for a week long visit, except for the 2 days and one night that they spent at their older son’s home. It was a nice relaxing week full of lots of chatting and lots of food!

  
  

  Grandpa was a butcher for years. He bought a lamb and had it butchered while he was here.  (He has a hard time finding lamb in Missouri). We packed it in dry ice so he could take it home on the plane.We were able to have leg of lamb with mint jelly for one of our meals. Yum! Here Grandpa is taking a vein out that could cause the meat to taste bad. He left 6 packages of lamb in our freezer. Yeah!

  
  

  

  
  

  We spent an afternoon watching the movie that came out this year called “Esther” (very disappointing because they didn’t stick to scripture) and Luther. Hubbins and I have seen Luther before and really liked it. We had lots of talks around the dinner table about the end times and Jesus return. Grandpa was a preacher at one time so we always enjoy hearing his viewpoint. One afternoon we drove to town so they could visit their great-grandchildren.

  
  

  Other than that, I had a lot of time to visit with my mother-in-love which I always enjoy. Geneva has lived a fascinating life. She was raised on a river in Arkansas as a child. She came from a large family.  They lived off the land and fished for huge turtles in the river for meat. Everything they ate was either grown or caught. Her mother was a devout Christian but her father did not come to know the Lord until he was close to death. Geneva can remember, as a small child, watching her mother pray and interceed for her husband after he left for work each morning. Geneva helped to lead him to the Lord before he died. I could go on and on with the stories she has shared but the most delightful thing about Geneva is that she is a true example of a Titus 2 older woman.

  
  

  

  
  

  Geneva and I had a lot of time to visit while we prepared our daily meals in the kitchen. One day she was talking about her husband and said, “I do whatever he tells me to”. I knew that she didn’t mean she would follow him into sin. I’ve known her long enough to know that.  I thought about her words a lot in the days that followed and what a godly example of an older Titus 2 woman she has always been to me. I’ve heard Geneva give suggestions to her husband and offer her advice if she feels she can offer some help in his decisions but in the end she does what he asks her to do in a respectful manner. She brings glory to God because of her submission.

  
  

  I asked her where she first learned that God’s Word taught she was to submit to her husband.  She said that submission was taught from their pulpit when she was younger and that she was thankful for it. Not many churches teach on submission today. I’m grately to attend a church that does not back down from this truth even though it’s not a popular teaching in the church today. (http://www.xanga.com/jehovahraah83/)

  
  

  I’ve never heard Geneva raise her voice at her husband but she always responds to him with respect. (Eph. 5:33)  She has always been a living example of each of the things an older woman is told to teach the younger women. .. not in words only but  by her actions, too.

  
  

  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.
  
  I’m grateful God has given me a godly mother-in-love in Geneva.

  
  

   

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