What we learn by observing the folly of a stupid bird and her maternal negligence. Job 39:13-17 13 (ESV)
13The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
14For she leaves her eggs to the earth
and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15forgetting that a foot may crush them
and that the wild beast may trample them.
16She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
17because God has made her forget wisdom
and given her no share in understanding.
Instead of laying and guarding her eggs, the ostrich lays and abandons her eggs. She figures the sun can do the warming work in the sand for her. "Why should I be bothered? I've got more important things to do with my life." Her eggs are notoriously vulnerable to being crushed by beasts, eaten by reptiles,or snatched by men.
We are to be child nurturers and protectors. A women's instinctive mother-love is kindled in conception, roars into a raging bonfire at birth, and is brutishly beaten down when she returns to the office. Common sense screams out the fact that separating a mother from her young child is simply fighting against nature.
A homemaking mother is not merely a conservative and anachronistic option, but a God-ordained and sacredly instituted vocation. It's the scriptural pattern and lifestyle prescribed for the woman who is married and has children.
- these are all excerpts from the book I am reading called Womanly dominion by Mark Chanski. It has been really challenging me how I view my role and the importance God places on me being right here at home, nurturing my kids.
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