The Chatty Homemaker

God Created the Home

Today I want to chat about how God created the home. I also want to highlight some points about how God is for the homemaker and his call on her life.

We see in Genesis 2:8, that God created a home for Adam and Eve. “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (KJV) He did not just create Adam and leave him to figure things out for himself. He gave him a home. He also gave him responsibility to care for the animals and to rule over them. Adam was well taken care of by God and had plenty of animal friends to keep him busy. The LORD also provided him with all the food he could eat. But something was missing. He did not have another human companion.

God Created the Woman

God points out in Genesis 2:18 that it is not good for man to be alone. “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an help meet for him.” God gave Adam every beast of the field and every fowl of the air. But in all of them there was not one to fill the role of help meet for Adam.

Thus God created Eve, the woman, for the man. Genesis 2:21-23 “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Now Adam had a help meet for him. The Webster’s 1828 dictionary defines the word meet as being fit; suitable; proper; qualified; convenient; adapted, as to a use or purpose. So, God gave woman to man as a proper and qualified helper, convenient for him and adapted for the purpose of helping her man. How does a woman best help her husband? By following his leadership with God as his head. I Corinthians 11:3 “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.” You can’t do anything without your head. You need it and your body follows it’s lead. This is how it should also be in your marriage.

God Created the Family

The family starts with the man and woman coming together to become husband and wife. Genesis 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Then God blesses with children. Genesis 4:1 & 2 “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”

God created the family to worship him and have a close personal relationship with him. He placed the man as the head to lead his wife, and the wife to help her husband by raising her children to be obedient to the Lord. One way she does this is by reverencing her husband above anyone else. Another is by caring for her home joyfully, and showing them the love of God that is in her in her daily life. When you live out your calling joyfully and with the love of God pouring out of you into everything that you say and do your children will follow. Your husband also will be blessed by you.

It is Hard Work

Being a woman is not always easy. Living up to our calling as wives, mothers, homemakers, or old maids is hard work. When we remember that this is what God created us for though we know that it is important work. We also have his promise that he will help us if we but ask. He will make it easier to follow our husbands if we ask and allow him to lead us. He will also help us to keep our home joyfully and with love if we ask and allow him to move in our hearts.

We are not alone

It is easy to let yourself feel like it’s too much, or that it isn’t fair. But this is what we were made for. God is on our side. God is for the homemaker. He will accomplish in us what we cannot accomplish on our own. My husband tells me often that the best thing I can do to help him and make his life easier is to keep his house in order. That sounds easy enough. But when you break down what that actually means, it seems almost impossible.

For us this means homeschooling 5 children ages 16 – 4 while caring for two ages 2 years and 3 months. It means keeping up with the laundry for 9 people and 8 beds. Not to mention the food prep and making sure meals are on the table at 8am, noon and 5:30pm, every day. Also, making sure the house is clean, dishes washed and put away after every meal, floors swept and mopped.

The list goes on it seems like forever. But when God is for you how can you be anything but happy in it all? We must remember when we are on top of a mountain of laundry or at the bottom of a nasty urine stained toilet God is for the homemaker. He is right there in the thick of it with you cheering you on. He is your joy in the mess and in the easy stuff too.

God sees the Small Stuff

It is easy to feel as if no one ever sees the little thigs you do everyday. Like filling the hand soap dispensers, or replacing the toilet paper roll when it runs out. Or maybe you noticed that one of your kids just carelessly dropped something on the floor and you picked it up without even telling them. The grocery list doesn’t make itself nor does it consider what is on sale this week. Meal plans don’t just pop up out of nowhere. You schedule all of the appointments and chauffeur the kids around. This list too could go on forever. Don’t get weary keep your joy for it comes from the Lord. When you do the little things diligently in love he will reward you.

The Reward of a Joyful Home

Your home will be peaceful and happy. Your husband and children will be blessed and thriving. No one thrives in disorder and clutter. That is where anxiety and unrest breed. Cleanliness and order breed calmness and contentment. You have the God given power to fill your home with peace, beauty, joy, love, and blessings from the Lord himself. If you feel like you can’t do it, or like it’s just too much remember, God is for the homemaker and that is you. When we remember that the creator of everything is right next to us, helping us and rooting for our success, it all seems so much easier. We are then able to do all things with abundant joy. Yes, even scrubbing the toilet for the 5th time today can be a joyous occasion when you know that God is right there next to you.