My Purpose
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3. The candle is usable only when it is lighted.
Young ladies, the Lord puts the big burden on you.
It is said says that when a couple has trouble, it's 90% the wife's fault.
The reasoning , "Why?" "The husband's job is outside the home, but the wife's job is the home.
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.
The husband's main duty in life is to work somewhere outside the home, but the wife's job is the home."
That means, wives, that you are going to be happy only when you have yielded yourself to that superior force.
You have no other chance in this world to be happy. You've got to come and say, "My husband is the fire, and I'm the candle. I yield myself."
An unlit candle is bigger than one that is burning.
The one that is burning will not be big for long; it is giving itself.
It's absolutely burning itself out, but it is fulfilling its purpose; the unlit one is not. It may be prettier, it may be bigger, and it will even last longer, but the unlit candle is not fulfilling its purpose! It represents a woman who says, "He's not going to tell me what to do!" The unlit candle represents the ERA. The candle was not made to be pretty; it was made to burn. The candle was not made to decorate; it was made to burn. You can put lipstick on this candle, but it won't be pretty.
4. The candle is beautiful only when it is lighted.
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Do you want to be pretty?
Do you want to be lovely?
Then be submissive.
Johnson & Johnson does not make any cosmetic that compares to submission when it comes to make a lovely lady.
Avon knows nothing that can compare to submissiveness when it comes to putting beauty on a lady's face.
5. The candle not only is more beautiful when it is yielded to the superior force (now I'm going to get a little frank), but it is the warmest! Do you know who the frigid women are? They are the unsubmissive ones.
The candle is warm only when lighted.
6. The candle is fulfilled only when it is giving itself.
A lighted candle could say, "All I am is a slave!" or "I'm just burning myself out!"
It could also say, "I am fulfilling the purpose for my existence."
An unlit candle has no marks up at the top; it has no melted wax coming down the side; it is straight, but it is not fulfilling its purpose.
A burning candle may even have a little bit of a bend and may be marred, but it has fulfilled its purpose and in so doing, it has given of its life!
The lighted candle may have dishpan hands, but it has given itself and so it's beautiful and happy.
It may get a little extra wrinkled because it has worked so hard, but it has given itself and fulfilled its purpose in life.
Mrs. Charles Spurgeon in the latter days of Spurgeon's ministry became an woman with many disabilities. Her husband was in the peak of his ministry and was traveling much of the time. Mrs. Spurgeon became a bit bitter. Someone came to her and said, "Mrs. Spurgeon, what's your trouble? You've lost your glow." Mrs. Spurgeon complained that she was in a wheelchair, an disable, in bed much of the time, and that Charles Spurgeon was gone most of the time. Then somebody came to her one day, talked to her, and said, "Mrs. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon is the greatest gift that England has! Won't you be the greatest giver that England has? Because your husband is England's greatest gift, you can be England's greatest giver," and that did it! Mrs. Spurgeon, it is said, gave her husband. In giving her husband, she gained her husband, and she got more attention than she had gotten before. She got more affection than she had known before. As she sat in her wheelchair and as she reclined on her bed, she had a look of peace and beauty because she had given herself and her husband for England. Young ladies, make your husband the greatest gift you can make of him. Give him to God. Then one day when you die you can say, "I finished my course."
A rebellious wife is never a happy wife.
A rebellious child is never a happy child.
A rebellious citizen is never a happy citizen.
A rebellious church member is never a happy church member.
A horse that is not broken is not a happy horse. A horse is happy only when it has been broken and then yields itself to the tender tug of its master who pulls the reigns.
The horse whose master can order and command him gets more affection than the horse that pulls back, bristles and bucks.
There comes a time in his life when he says, "I'll yield. I think I'll be happier when I yield to the tug of the one who pulls the reigns."
That's the kind of horse whose master strokes his mane. That's the kind of horse whose master pats his face. That's the kind of horse whose master pats his side. That's the kind of horse whose master combs his mane. That's the kind of horse that is happy.
The happy child is the one who yields himself to the will of Mom and Dad.
The happy citizen is the one who yields himself to the will of the government.
The happy church member is the one who yields himself to the leadership of the pastor, and the happy wife is the one who yields herself to the will of her husband.
Here's the tragic thing.
If you want to, you can wait until you're 25 years old to get saved, and you can still burn for Jesus after you're 25; you've got as much a chance to burn for Him, but you can't burn as long for Him.
You can decide to wait to yield yourself to the superior force until you're 35, and you can still have just as bright a light, but you can't burn as long.
If you care to, you can wait until you're 45 before you decide to yield to the superior force (whether you're a citizen or a child or a wife or a Christian) and you can burn just as brightly, but you can't burn as long.
If you've found the man for whom you were made, you'll never be happy apart, but together you'll never be happy until you have yielded yourself to become all he would need.
Then in turn the young man says, "You have helped make me what I am, and I'll be thoughtful and considerate of you."
I never have understood why people want to fuss. I've never understood why anybody would want to be unkind to anybody else.
All of our fussing, complaining, griping, arguing and feeling selfish lie in this one truth:
That which is inferior or weaker has not submitted itself to that which is stronger.
That's the trouble with this new generation. That's why they drink liquor, then one kind of dope, then the needle, then the pill, then the upper, then the downer! Why?
He has not yielded himself.
That's why rebellious children aren't happy, and that's why unsubmissive wives aren't happy.
They have not yielded themselves.
If you will make a list of all the relationships you have where you are responsible to authority, and if you will decide that you are going to submit yourself to that authority, you will be happy.
When Dr. John Rice comes to our church, he obeys me. You know why? This is awful to say, but when he comes here, his position is inferior to mine. When we have a board meeting at the Sword of the Lord, I obey him. Why? When I go there, my position is inferior to his. We have a happy relationship only when he submits himself to me at First Baptist Church of Hammond and I submit myself to him in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. What am I as far as being the weaker is concerned?
I am a Christian, so I must yield myself to the Holy Spirit. I am a citizen, so I must obey the laws of my land and respect the authority.
I'm a board member, so when I go to a board meeting, I must respect authority.
Ninety-five percent of all the people with whom I counsel about home problems could be cured if they would do what I am talking about right now.
That which is inferior will always get more attention from that which is superior when it yields itself to its superior force.
Herein is the philosophy of government, the philosophy of churches, the philosophy of homes, the philosophy of life, the philosophy of business, and the philosophy of any human institution or endeavor that has a leader and a follower!
Woman The Completer
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Help Meet - one who completes the man.
A relatively unskilled worker who assists a skilled worker usually by manual labor.
God’s work wasn’t complete because man couldn’t reproduce; so He made a helper to enable him to propagate his kind.
She would be suitable intellectually, morally, and physically—as his counterpart.