Sunday, 16 November 2008

• Men, Protect The Women In Your Life

  Guest post submitted by Love__Chronicles

  

  As a man, I am sworn to protect the women in my life.  The important question to ask concerning how I relate to the women in my life is "what can I do to protect her?"
  
  Now, I'm getting married.  I've found the woman who will be my wife.  All these years, I've wondered what she would be like... it's surreal to look at her and know that this is the answer.
  
  Through this unfolding love, a new sense of duty has risen up inside me.  It's the call to protect the woman I love.
  
  Men, protect all the women in your life, because it's right, and it's good practice for when you meet the one you will take as your wife.
  
  Protect her from untruth.  Tell her that she is beautiful.  Tell her that she is God's workmanship and affirm in her the truth that she is able to beloved.  So many women in today's culture feel like they are unlovable because of media and unrealistic societal standards, but the word of God is clear that we are all God's 'poema' or 'workmanship'.  God did not make a mistake when He made any of us.  Men, she is God's masterpiece. 

  Women today are so hurt due to lack of masculinity that they have to attend conferences and seminars to learn that they are beautiful and deserve the utmost respect.  Also, look throughout history and see... women tend to become what men treat them like.  For these reasons, I will not sleep without letting Michelle know beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is the most beautiful, amazing woman I have ever laid eyes on.
  
  Protect her purity.   Women in our culture have been raised to think that they have to be responsible to protect their own purity.  When a man takes advantage of a woman, she now feels it's her fault, entirely.  I'm not saying she didn't make any mistakes, and I'm not saying we should blame others for our own actions... but I want the women in that situation to understand that they have been the victims of the passive male. 

  The passive man is irresponsible, and fails to protect a girl's purity.  He doesn't realize that a woman has been geared by the creator to willingly give herself to a man, and it's the man's responsibility to not passively allow that love to awaken until she pleases (It's true!  It's in Songs of Solomon!).  If I have loved Michelle properly, and I have, she will be willing to give herself to me sexually.  She is designed to be that way.  And I have nos hame in saying this:  I will protect her purity as if her life and mine depend on it, because she is a precious temple of God's glory...there is no shame, no pain, and no end to which I will not go to be that responsible man, reject passivity, and preserve my wife-to-be for the marriage covenant. 
  
  Protect her from insecurity.   A woman needs to know she is safe.   In a culture of failing men, women have been left scared, and unable to open their hearts to anyone.  They don't feel safe anymore.  They need men that are vulnerable, and willing to go out on a limb, emotionally, to assure them that they can be loved without being used.  They need men who will defend them against any and all predators, as well.  I always want to make sure Michelle feels safe with me, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
  
  I love my lady so much.  She, like most women in America today, has been fed lies, victimized by male passivity, used, left feeling unsafe and unprotected, and laid in the dust feeling as if she were the only one to blame.
  
  But she will be vindicated.  I want her to know, most of all, that the days of untruth, passivity, and insecurity are gone.  I have arrived to put an end to it all by taking her as my wife, and loving her with God's love shed abroad in my heart.

  Men, how do you try to protect and honor the women in your life? Women, do you appreciate it when the guys in your life try to protect you?

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