THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE
The Greek word for teacher in the Bible is “didaskalos.” However, when the Bible tells the older women to be “teachers of good things” to the younger women, the word used is “kalodidaskalos.” This word means to be not only a teacher but a teacher of lovely and beautiful things.I wonder why many women want to teach men or want to teach the doctrines of the Bible that God has given the men to teach, when all the while, God has given them an even greater teaching ministry! The word given to women takes it up a step more! We are to teach the beautiful things. How wonderful.
Sadly, most older women have gone AWOL on the mandate God has given to them. And if they have taken up the role of teacher, they have not embraced the role of teaching “the beautiful things.”
These beautiful things are all to do with marriage and the home—being a keeper at home and loving our husbands and children. Even submission to our husband is a beautiful thing.
1 Peter 3:5 (GW) says: “This is how holy women who had confidence in God EXPRESSED THEIR BEAUTY in the past. They placed themselves under their husbands’ authority as Sarah did.”
The J. B. Phillip’s trans. says: “This was the SECRET OF THE BEAUTY of the holy women of ancient times who trusted I God and were submissive to their husbands.”
The TBP trans. of Titus 2:5 says that when the older women teach these beautiful things, and the younger women embrace them that it is “A GOOD ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.”
Enjoy your beautiful life today,
Love from Nancy Campbell
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