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| By Pastor Richard Minet |
TRAINED TO BE KEEPERS AT HOME
(Training Our Daughters to be Keepers at Home)
Contents:
- What food represents in our cultures.
- The use of by God, Satan and man to achieve different purposes.
- Success in the workplace at the expense of the home front.
- The true meaning of the word "keeper".
- Working class 21st century ladies
Tit. 2:1-5
As for you, Titus, promote the kind of living that reflects wholesome teaching. Teach the older men to exercise self-control, to be worthy of respect, and to live wisely... Similarly, teach the older women to live in a way that honors God. They... should teach others what is good. These older women MUST TRAIN the younger women to love their husbands and their children, to live wisely and be pure, TO WORK IN THEIR HOMES, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God. (NLT)
Apart from being a source of nourishment for sustenance of life, food represents a lot of other purposes. From place to place, people to people, culture to tradition, etc, food means different things to different people.
For example In some eastern part of Nigeria, refusing food is regarded as refusing their friendship. In Gen. 18:1-8 Abraham urge God to accept his food as a sign that he had indeed found favour with him. In Gen. 27:1-4, Isaac ordered for food from his son Esau to be used as a propellant for activating divine blessing.
