... is the title of a daily devotional by Walter A. Henrichsen, a former Navigator who also wrote what I hear is a stellar book titled: *Disciples are Made, Not Born."

My red-pilled ex-pastor is going through this devotional and sent me this blurb from Day 68.


LEADERSHIP

"And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." Luke 1:28

God spoke to Mary, the mother of Jesus, only once through the angel Gabriel. After this, God communicated His will regarding Mary and Jesus through Joseph.

  • First, when the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to take Mary as his wife.

  • Second, when the angel again appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to take the family to Egypt.

  • Third, when the angel told Joseph to return to Israel from Egypt.

  • And fourth, when God instructed Joseph to move the family to the area of Galilee.

Even in the life of this remarkably blessed woman God led her and her Son through her husband. As Paul writes, "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 Savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."

Peter also addresses the leadership of men in the home. "Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are now her children if you do right and let nothing terrify you." When was the last time you heard a woman address her husband as "lord?" God designates the husband the leader in the home.


I'm usually not a fan of daily devotionals ... but I might be picking this one up.