In a world that is clueless about commitment, beauty, love, loyalty, womanhood, manhood, the bible, motherhood, an so much more, how on earth is a guy to find a real woman? My answer? God. In fact this one of the only things I have ever disagreed with my favorite preacher Matt Chandler about. I have heard him and others say countless time “There is no magical “ONE” out there for you. You know how you can know you married the “One”? You married her”. I beg to differ. If God is sovereign over all things “Eph 1:11” even the place in which I dwell “Acts 17:26” then He is most assuredly the one who prepared Jordan for me and me for Jordan. Let me tell you a little bit about my wonderful wife.
Jordan is a true woman. The feminist movement and the Christian egalitarian movement has fallen short. In their honorable attempts to rightly say that women are equal with men they have inadvertently stripped women of true womanhood and femininity. You see those groups tell women that they are not only equal to men but they are merely human. In our world of nicety and inclusion, even inside the church, we have lost the ability to hear the bible address humanity as man and women. We strip all distinctions away until we simply have “mere humans”. Jordan is a woman who has escaped the tyranny of such mistakes. She understands that God created her as more that human He has created her as a woman.
This truth about my wife means so much to me as a man, husband, and father. Jordan wants me to be more than human. She desires for me to be a biblical man. For me that means that she is challenging me daily by her love and support of me to be a better man. She encourages me and wont let me get by with not loving and serving her well. She is my equal and my helper. She helps me serve her by not taking advantage of me. She helps me to be honest with her by being able to handle the truth of my sin. It is actually her embrace of biblical womanhood that is creating space for me to be the man the bible demands me to be. She is not scared of words like submit and help. The bible is more important to her than modern sensibilities. She even loves Jesus more than me and that is crazy awesome!
Not only is all of this true of my wife but so much more. She is unbelievable attractive, she is fun, she is the coolest person I know, I like her, her favorite flowers are lilies, she loves investing in and disciplining other women, she even likes me. Prov 31:10 says “A good wife who can find” and Prov 31:30 says “A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised”. I did not find her, God gave me the ONE. I know I can praise her because she lays her crowns at the feet of Jesus. Jordan, happy 4th anniversary. I love you my wife, my one flesh, the mother of my son, the delight of my heart, and my blood bought sister.
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