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Women: The Reason Men Pray

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1 Timothy

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Introduction: Sir Thomas Overby, the 17th century English poet, penned “A Wife” espousing the virtues a young man should demand from a woman.

It is rather lengthy, so here is but a portion:

And all the carnall beauty of my wife,

Is but skin-deep...

Man did but the well-being of this life

From woman take; her being she from man;

And therefore Eve created was a wife,

And at the end of all her sex, began:

Mariage their object is; their being then,

And now perfection, they receive from men.

Good, is a fairer attribute then white,

’Tis the minds beauty keeps the other sweete;

That’s not still one, nor mortall with the light,

And all the carnall beauty of my wife,

Is but skin-deep...

Good, is a fairer attribute then white,

’Tis the minds beauty keeps the other sweete;

That’s not still one, nor mortall with the light,

Nor glasse, nor painting can it counterfeit;

Nor doth it raise desires, which ever tend

At once, to their perfeciton and their end.

As good, and knowing, let her be discreete,

That, to the others weight, doth fashion bring;

Discretion doth consider what is fit,

Goodnesse but what is lawfull; but the thing,

Not circumstances; learning is and wit,

In men, but curious folly without it.

Good, is a fairer attribute then white,

’Tis the minds beauty keeps the other sweete;

That’s not still one, nor mortall with the light,

Nor glasse, nor painting can it counterfeit;

Nor doth it raise desires, which ever tend

At once, to their perfeciton and their end.

Good, is a fairer attribute then white,

’Tis the minds beauty keeps the other sweete;

That’s not still one, nor mortall with the light,

Nor glasse, nor painting can it counterfeit;

Nor doth it raise desires, which ever tend

At once, to their perfeciton and their end.

Good, is a fairer attribute then white,

’Tis the minds beauty keeps the other sweete;

That’s not still one, nor mortall with the light,

Nor glasse, nor painting can it counterfeit;

Nor doth it raise desires, which ever tend

At once, to their perfeciton and their end.

As good, and knowing, let her be discreete,

That, to the others weight, doth fashion bring;

Discretion doth consider what is fit,

Goodnesse but what is lawfull; but the thing,

Not circumstances; learning is and wit,

In men, but curious folly without it.

Mariage; to all those joyes two parties be,

And doubled are by being parted so,

Wherein the very act of chastity,

Whereby two soules into one body go.

Which makes two, one; while here they living be,

    And after death in their posterity.

This poem reminds us of the words of Solomon.

Virtue is not something innate to a person as much as it is fostered in a person.

If one is a good spouse it is the result of something or someone else.

Virtue is not something innate to a person as much as it is fostered in a person.

If one is a good spouse it is the result of something or someone else.

Creative minds of every century have invented tools that shaped their societies and shaped the lives of the generations that came after them.

But, only God can shape the hearts of the people who are the generations to come, and he does not use a tools.

He used a person - A Mother.

Those same 2nd graders, when asked how God made mothers and from what replied: “He used magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.

God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.”

When asked what would make their mom perfect, they replied: “On the inside she’s already perfect.

Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.”

You have heard the old idioms: “Beauty is only skin deep.

and Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Much of the truth that lies behind those sayings is in the fact of what lies beneath, in the heart of a woman.

That truth comes from a biblical worldview of character and virtue are something to be desired far more than beauty and wealth, much like Solomon says that wisdom is to be desired more than rubies.

They say beauty is only skin deep, which means that beautiful people are no different from ugly people except for their appearance.

This is the second stereotype or aphorism that evolutionary psychology has overturned.

It turns out that beautiful people are genuinely different from ugly people, because they are genetically and developmentally healthier.

What we learn from God’s Word is:

A Godly Woman is a Thing of Beauty.

Doesn’t matter how young or old, rich or poor.

Virtue is what last.

Go home later and read how Lemuel best remembers his mother in the last chapter of Proverbs.

Proverbs 31:30

As a father I would much rather my wife and I lead my girls to be healthier spiritually, to be seen as beautiful in their attitudes and actions, their character as a godly woman who honoring Him with their life, than for them to be seen as a hot girl, popular and dressed in the best fashions.

I would much rather my wife and I lead Silas to find a good spouse according to God’s Word than according to societies ways.

As a pastor I would hope that you fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, grandparents and members period would desire the same for the females that you know.

I would hope for you to desire for and lead the boys to grow up being men who seek a Godly woman that will honor God, follow her husbands lead and be a partner in life.

As a father I would much rather my wife and I lead my girls to be healthier spiritually, to be seen as beautiful in their attitudes and actions, seen in their character as a Godly woman, than for them to be seen as a hot girl, popular and dressed in the best fashions.

I would much rather my wife and I lead Silas to find a good spouse according to God’s Word than according to societies ways.

As a pastor I would hope that you fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, grandparents and members period would desire the same for the females that you know.

I would hope for you to desire for and lead the boys to grow up being men who seek a Godly woman.

Paul urges two young pastors in two churches the need for this to happen in the family and the family of God. 1) Titus lead the church in Crete, a very worldly place where a queen (I believe the wife of King Minos) became infatuated with a prize bull given to him, and the Greek myth is the Minotaur is birthed from bestiality. is where Paul encourages the older women to behave rightly with their mouths and their hands teaching the younger women to do the same in order to keep the Word of God from being blasphemed.

2) Timothy leads the church in Ephesus, the which could be described as “the great bastion of feminine supremacy.”

It is where they worship the Greek Goddess called Dianna by the Romans, and they do so in a temple where the prostitutes wore their hair up with shiny braids and beads.

The place was also a wealthy center of trade.