© 19 Colin Melbourne
Woman’s Sin and Judgement
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Gen. 3:16 KJV
The Fall of mankind into sin was the result of our first Parents shrugging off the Word of God, with the tragic consequence of eternal separation from our Creator.
In additional Judgement of the woman, Eve, God declared multiplied sorrow, referring to pain in childbirth and menses.
That is why human parturition is more traumatic than for any other mammal.
All Creatures Great & Small?
As a veterinary surgeon, I’ve become familiar with farm and zoo animals giving birth, and the normal process is noticeably smoother than for women.
Multiplied Sorrow
Parturition in women begins with an extended painful labour, culminating in acute pain as the bones of the pelvic girdle separate to allow the baby to be extruded through the birth canal, often accompanied by involuntary screaming in response to uterine contractions.
Monthly Cramps
Women must also endure more uterine pain and discomfort during monthly menstruation, when the mucosal lining, the endometrium, of the womb is sloughed and expelled.
Never Forget
These universal reminders were given to us as a direct result of our ancestors’ disobedience: Never forget that disavowing God’s Word invariably brings spiritual, physical, and emotional, pain.
Multiplied Conception
God also declared that He’d greatly multiply the woman’s conception, which He certainly has: All the people on Earth ultimately originate from Eve’s womb.
Give Me a Husband
Furthermore, our Creator has implanted in the heart and soul of each woman the desire to have a husband.
Spinsters are sad, loveless, frustrated creatures, with no husband and no children.
No Woman: No Cry
From observation, I notice this desire of woman is greater than men’s desire to have a wife.
Bachelors do not appear to bear similar burdens as spinsters.
Head of The Home
Additionally, Our LORD has decreed that the husband shall rule over his wife. That is, to have authority over his own wife.
If a wife does not accept a godly husband’s authority in their home, great strife inevitably befalls that couple.
Happy Families
A husband ought to love his wife, as Christ loves the church.
That is how to have both a happy marriage, and successful Christian walk, Eph. 5:22-28 KJV;
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
© 19 Colin Melbourne
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