Walking Circumspectly
Kristin, I so needed this today. The first chapter you reviewed this Tuesday simply hit me square in the face (something I didn't realize I needed until now). My heart is convicted in just reading your reviews, I can hardly imagine what it will be like when I am able to get the book! In the meantime, I wanted you to know that God is definitely working in me through these weekly posts and I'm sure many other women as well! I can't wait to read the next one!
Great post, sister!
"Once your eyes are opened, there is no closing them; what you've already seen is burned on your mind and heart."
Amen!
Praise the Lord, Monica! I can assure you He is changing us together, because my life is radically changing.
I don't think that anyone looking from the outside would see much difference unless they were a fly on the wall 24/7. But Ryan and I notice. 
((HUG)) I am so glad that the Lord is using these reviews to help you, too.
You are so right...(so is Debi:0)Women today forget its a PRIVILAGE to serve our husbands...and a privilage to act as Christ did, serving humbly, completely submissive to the Father. I think in many awesome ways God takes care of women, and shelters them. After Eve committed that sin, God sheltered her by putting her behind the protection of her husband. He instructs on the covering of the head for spiritual reasons we cannot understand, at least in the worship service (ICor 11:10), AND he encourages (commands) women to be silent in the worship service to let the man represent the family when he comments, etc. Those things are PROTECTIONS for us...He calls us weaker vessels, but in a way that suggests an extremely valuable possession, not a lesser person...I think its so awesome and precious...my prayer is that more women at least of our young generation can come to the kind of peace, that we are learning here.
God Bless!
Great post.
You said,
"She's right. We can argue with God, telling him all the reasons why obedience isn't possible right now and describing all the ways our husband doesn't deserve a helper. But we and our families will pay the price for this rebellion against God. And it is rebellion: no matter what soft, comely language we couch our resistance in, it's still rebellion against God."
That is SO true. When I realized that my heart of rebellion, though it looked very *tame*, was no different than what Lucifer did, it sure gave me some motivation to want to change!!!
Hello Kristen. Have been reading your blog for about a month and just haven't stopped to say hi yet.
I did want you to know that I thoroughly enjoy reading your blog, especially the weekly review of Debi Pearl's new book. I haven't purchased one yet, but am hoping to do so soon.
You stated in today's entry: "Dare I raise my head in pride and grumble about having to serve a man? Or is it my privilege to imitate my Savior?"
This spoke VOLUMES to me! I've never thought about it from that perspective! Thank you!
A sister in Christ,
Barbara
(((Barbara))), thanks. I'm glad you took the time to comment.
Praise God for His working in our lives!
And you know, when I write stuff like you quoted above, I am talking to MYSELF as much or more than anyone. I pray that the Lord will give all of us the strength and will to obey Him, and not to grumble. It's a walk and a process.
(did anyone just hear the hiss of a serpent? "Did God really say...?").
You nailed it. That is exactly what is going on.
thanks for another thought-provoking post.
Hi Kristen,
Your post was excellent. This really does sound like an amazing albeit challenging book.
It kind of reminds me of a study we did at church a couple years ago by Nancy Leigh DeMoss called Lies Women Believe. Even though Lies was not nearly as candid concerning our need to be obedient to our husbands as Created seems to be, we had lost almost half the women before we were even half way through the study. A few more left when we got to the chapter on birth control. Sad huh?
I look forward to reading more of your thoughts and also getting the book soon.
Wow, Lauren!! That is interesting...but I guess it's not surprising. Jesus called us "little flock" for a reason. Most people will reject His words.
Karen--I really enjoyed your review!
I have got to get this book. I recently told my husband that after reading several blogs on the subject, I was really committing to submission in our marriage. After picking himself up off the floor and asking "Who are you and what have you done with my wife?!", he was really touch and humbled. Now, since then, Satan has been prodding him to reeeeeally challenge me sometimes. Not huge things, usually little petty comments or accusations. My natural response is to accuse him back of something he is faulty in, or to get verrry sarcastic. I did niether last night, just prayed for God to help me let it go, to be faithful to Him, because I sure had some good ones popping into my mind! He was so good to hold my tongue, and hubby apologized this morning. I hated that it went all night, but me trying to talk it out just was making him angry. God's timing worked it out! Anyway, guess I need to go blog this, it's getting too long here!
Kristen - Just amen.
Kristen,
I was soooo convicted by the stories of older, bitter women. I realized I was heading down the same path and it was my own fault--not my husband's. I was going to end up a crazy old loon and ruin his God given ministry.
We have a choice to make: God's way or the way of the flesh which ends in death. I was talking to some friends about this book this weekend. Their responses were, "but that's hard." Then, "I probably need to read that book." My husband, bless his heart, doesn't know what hit him. We didn't have a bad marriage, but we kept hitting a wall somewhere that would take a few days to sort out what had happened. Now, he is asking what happened and how long this was going to last. I told him that I had been hit upside the head with the truth of God's Word. Truth doesn't change, so by God's grace this is a permenant thing. And life has never been so good. It is hard work, but it is good. Hubby is flabergasted by his wife (7 months pregnant--used to be my excuse) hopping up to serve him, taking out the trash, not ordering him around, and taking care of minor repair jobs. He responds by treating me think a queen.
Who knew God's ways would work? Why don't I trust His Word like I should?
I'm going to start through the book again, so I can get the principles locked in my head.
Thanks for your reviews. They are good reminders.
By the way, it is raining in SC today. But it is cleaning the air of the awful pollen.
Leigh Ann
AMEN SISTERS!
Jema, that is awesome. Praise the LORD! I really identify with the way you said you usually react, and how hard it is to hold your tongue. ((HUG)) As He did for you yesterday, God will help us.
Leigh Ann, you wrote, "but we kept hitting a wall somewhere that would take a few days to sort out what had happened. Now, he is asking what happened and how long this was going to last." Ryan said pretty much the same thing. Something is HAPPENING. And we were running into that same wall...it had 'pride' and 'stubbornness' spraypainted all over it.
He doesn't deserve it. I didn't deserve the blood of Christ, either, but did He withhold Himself because I wasn't worthy? Or did he come in the form of a servant?
Oh, wow! That's such a great point, Kristen! Jesus DID come to serve even though He should've been served as our King. He serves us daily by His intercession. A humbling thing that He could be living for Himself, yet He ministers to us. Yet we are so selfish. What a perfect opportunity to practice that servitude in our marriages.
Your blog and these readings are wonderful. Thank you so much for suggesting I stop by, Kristen!
I thought you sounded like-minded.
Greetings of peace in Jesus' name - the PRINCE of Peace.
Thank you for writing Kristen.
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