MAMA BEARS, SEX, AND SERVANTHOOD

 

 

Serving is a glorious calling. Jesus came as a servant, not for His own benefit but for the benefit of others. Therefore, we must not disdain the role of a servant:

 

·       Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:5–8)

 

We are called to be like Jesus. However, servanthood requires humility, we seek roles that will bestow recognition upon us. Several of Jesus’ Apostles were craving rules of leadership in His Kingdom. However, Jesus saw fit to reset their priorities:

 

·       “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:25–28)

 

To be greatest is to be least in the eyes of society. However, this isn’t the way that the Lord regards us:

·       Thus says the LORD: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. (Isaiah 66:1–2)

 

Although Jesus is every bit God, He is content to take a subservient position to the Father:

 

·       But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. (1 Corinthians 11:3)

 

Even though in His essence (nature) Jesus is no less God than the Father, we get no indication whatsoever that He is dissatisfied with His subservient role. Instead, He delighted in giving the preeminence to the Father:

·       And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear. (Isaiah 11:2–3)

 

Nevertheless, Jesus had been essential to the Father’s plan moving forward:

·       And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I [John] began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” (Revelation 5:3–5)

 

There was no other way for the Father to accomplish His plans apart from the Cross of Christ (Matthew 26:39).

 

Church leaders are also to be servants rather than masters:

·       So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. (1 Peter 5:1–3)

 

In God’s estimation – and this is the One that counts – the greater role is that of a servant. The Christian servant seeks to love before even being loved and adored. It requires us to look to the needs of others even before our own.

 

The man is the head of the woman, as the Father is the head of the Son (1 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:8-14; Ephesians 5:22-31), but the man is incomplete, apart for the woman, as the children are also deprived apart from their mother. The mother is the nourishment of humanity. However, we have sustained decades of the disparagement of the woman’s gifts and role and are told that her worth depends upon doing what the man does. This is nothing short robbery, depriving the woman of whom she is.

 

And now the disparagement of the family is nearly complete with the disparagement of the man, as if “toxic masculinity” is the rule for men. Therefore, the man is told that he must now be feminine to have any worth. He cannot play with guns. That’s the role of the State. Nor can he even defend his own household against intrusion on every level – against thugs and the system demeaning the parental authority in favor of various forms of sexualizing training. Instead, he is forced to watch as the schools fill their children with all forms of perversion.

 

This makes it easier for the schools and State to take hold of the children to impose upon them their own perverse secular religion, through which we are told that our children belong to the State, the community. The State uses various enticements to win the child, telling them that they can be anything and any sex they want to be.

 

Question: Which party loves and is more apt to better care for the children – the parents or the State? The wisdom of King Solomon had become so famous that people traveled great distances to hear him speak.

Two prostitutes had been brought before Solomon to hear his wisdom. They both gave birth at the same time, but the baby of one of them died. Therefore, both claimed the living baby as their own:

 

·       And the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king. And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.” Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.” Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.” And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice. (1 Kings 3:23–28)

 

Today’s society is bereft of such wisdom and have concluded that they can raise children better than their own mothers who love them so much that they are willing to sacrifice for them. I therefore think that we should all encourage and esteem the “Mama Bears” who have been going to school board meetings to protest in favor of the well-being of their children. May God bless their efforts to bring sanity to this sick and moribund society!