Rent-Free

Good morning and welcome in today. Today we’re going to take a look at some scripture from the book of Titus but before we do that I wanted to tell you a little story.

Many years ago I worked traveling throughout the country. It’s amazing the amount of miles that I put on my vehicle back then. It was a nice job because you got to see things that you had never seen before in your life. From the Grand Canyon to Yellowstone, from the Badlands to the North Shore, my job took me all over the place.

One of the nicest perks about this job is that your housing was provided for you. Oh, sometimes it was fun to pull out the tent and go camping in the summertime but when I worked in an area for a few days or up to a week, my hotels we’re completely taken care of.

In the Christian Life a man provides for the needs of his wife and children. He provides them with a home, food and other basic needs for daily living.

I’ve always thought that being a wife would be a really great thing because you get to stay home, you get to be with your children and everything is provided for you. What more could you possibly ask for in life? It’s living completely rent free and being able to be with the ones you love all the time.

When you think about it, that’s exactly what God does for us in this world. Each day he provides everything that we could possibly need. He provided this world to live on where the food grows right out of the ground! That’s just one of His many amazing miracles. He provides us with water to drink and meat from the animals. He provides fish from the lakes and streams, and venison in the forest. He’s created all kinds of vegetables and fruits to satisfy our hunger. Our God is the greatest provider that there is and you didn’t have to do anything to receive it. It was already provided for you before you were even born. On this Earth each of us are living rent-free.

This lifestyle is very similar to being a chaste keeper at home. It’s the calling for a Christian woman. I’ve said it many times before but if I had been born a woman I would have loved this responsibility.

Titus 2:3-5 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

To be a keeper at home is a caretaker. A caretaker is a person whose job it is to take care of a house or property when the owner is not there.

As I’ve said in the past, I was involved with retail and was put in charge with opening up the store, watching the employees, and taking care of everything when the manager was gone. It’s the same responsibility that a wife has to her husband. She stays at home, watches the house, takes care of the children, and provides for their emotional needs.

God has roles for each of us in this world. Sadly many people who profess Christianity today have actually turned away from what God is calling them to be.

Women in these latter days have decided to go work out in the world instead of being home with their children and helping their husband. They have abandoned that one-on-one personal time that children need with a mother. They send their children off to babysitters, daycares, and boarding schools. Some of them believe that making more money is going to lead to a better life for their family, while the truth is they’re missing out on the most important thing of all, love.

That’s why the love of money is the root of all evil. Instead of choosing to live on less and learning to be content with what they have, their eyes become huge. They desire the possessions of the world rather than the possessions that God has already given them, these blessed little children. Interpersonal relationships with each other are so very important to God.

Kids need to be loved and need attention. This is the reason why a wife needs to be home all the time. It’s her Godly responsibility.

When I was young I had been taught for many years that a family cannot make it in this world unless both the husband and the wife were both working. It all comes down to what you mean by “making it” in this life. It comes down to what you choose that you are going to live without. Are you going to live without that brand new pickup or without the love and personal time with your children?

If there is just one thing that I have learned in this life is that it’s better to be poor and surrounded by a family that is filled with love, then to have all the riches in this world. This is exactly what it took Scrooge a little while to figure out in his famous movie. The greatest treasure is true divine love for God and each other.

Look at the things that God provided for Adam and Eve. A loving heavenly Father taking care of all their needs. They didn’t need to go get a job, they didn’t need to be concerned about their next meal, God took care of them completely. Such is the role of a wife. The husband has provided her with a home and her daily needs so that she can focus on keeping house and taking care of her husband and the children’s daily needs.

Men and women have different duties and roles in the Christian life. Men are called to be providers for their families. We work outside the home providing food, building a home, and helping with their families daily physical needs, and a wife is to be a keeper at home, created as a helper for man. Her kingdom is the husband’s home. As he provides for her needs, she is supposed to provide for his needs and the family.

As I said before what better job could you possibly ask for then being a wife and homemaker? As the men go out to cut firewood and work in the fields, the women can stay in the shade of a home on a hot summer day, make cookies and lemonade and read the children a book. A good husband makes life simple and easy for his wife. I’m sure I would have loved being a wife but I’m a man and my responsibilities are quite different.

Many times I think I was born in the wrong century, because many of the people who believe as I do we’re born back in the 18th century. Times have changed so much, not for the better but for the worse. Christian families are being undermined by the teaching and the philosophies of the world’s modern form of christianity.

For the sake of the children, I pray that people would learn to think about what is best for these little ones. A wife needs to be home, like a little hen who never strays to far from her nest in the henhouse. She needs to be at home, right where God intended her to be.

That’s where I’m going to stop for right now, but Lord willing, we will talk to you some more tomorrow. Until then, bye bye everybody.♥️

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