About the difference between men and women

Devotional Guide For the Week of November 1, 2009

EXTERNAL LIFE IS REALLY REAL

About the difference between men and women


To Know:

³So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.² (Gen. 1:27)

For years following Columbus¹ discovery of America, the Spanish and French
reaped the benefits of the newly found world. The English followed a century
later. The Spaniards amassed gold and the French collected pelts, but the
³get rich quick² schemes of the English completely failed. Ninety-two years
after Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh colonized Roanoke Island. That adventure
ended mysteriously and Roanoke became known to history as the lost colony.
Roanoke failed to produce enough food. The Indians grew only enough maize
for themselves and the English were unprepared to farm the land. The English
soon discovered that for colonies to survive, entire families would need to
cross the great sea. This became the leading principle of English
colonization.

Families are God¹s idea. Societies composed of only men eventually turn
savage. The California gold rush was mostly male and one out of every five
of the men died a violent death. The all male logging camps of the 19th
century could be brutal. For the past half century, a growing political
correctness has tempted women to act more masculine. Nothing is wrong with
correcting inequities, but God made us male and female. It endangers a
society to erase the differences between men and women. Let us rethink what
is happening to us when we blur sexual identity.


To Do:

Who is it that wants to blur the meaning of human being? Is it not our
adversary the Devil? The tactic of the Evil One is to separate what God has
joined together. He divides the generations, the races, and especially the
sexes. Men and women are equal in the sight of God and neither has a right
to oppress the other. Neither do we have the right to extinguish the
God-given difference between the sexes established by God in creation.


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