What does God say will last forever from all the endless and mostly unseen hours of work that being a wife and mother entail? All the deeds offered in obedience to the Lord were produced by grace-energized-love.
In Titus 2:4, we find the key that produces eternal reward from every day of a grace-energized wife’s marriage and a grace-energized mother’s family. Paul explains that the key is love. The first calling of a wife and mother is in God’s Word to be LOVE.
[Our] gifts, [and our] ministries… all one day will cease to exist because they will cease to have purpose or meaning… But our showing love [to our husbands and children], practicing [that] love, [and] living [ that] love now–are of utmost importance, more important than having any of the other virtues or gifts, because love is the link God gives us with His eternal Self.
The key to grace-energized lives, marriages, and families is love.
Love was rarely seen in everyday life and culture in the Roman world, and this gentle, sensitive, grace-energized love was to become a powerful witness in the culture of the 1st century. Jesus had already said that by this shall all know that you are My disciples, by your love. So that is why Paul says… Grace-energized-mothers love their children. That is the second phrase of Titus 2:4
From GEW-11d – Grace-Energized Living is the Titus Two Model for All Women (070722AM)
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