Gullible

My Dad and Mom recently suggested that I read a book by Douglas Wilson's wife, Nancy. The book is entitled The Fruit of Her Hands: Respect and the Christian Woman. Brian has read Douglas Wilson's Reforming Marriage, which could be said to be the version of the book that I am reading only it is for the husband. As I opened to the first chapter, on the first page was the phrase gullible women. By this phrase, this passage is quoted:

Know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, havinf a form of godlineness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth

(2 Timothy 3:1-6).

What a powerful passage that leads us up to the window to peer into our own depravity as humans! What struck me the most concerning this passage was the part about gullible women. I see myself within the words that Paul uses to describe this woman who is loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, and as one who is always learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

As I read, the rest of the chapter, I gleaned other practical truths, but I cannot for the life of me get past the fact that on my own, I am probably more inclined to slip into the lies that our culture tells me about my gender and about my role than I am to learn to believe what my Maker actually says about me. Isn't this reprehensible? This seriously makes me want to barf.

I am so in awe of the fact that God would place my husband over me for my own protection so that I would not be so easily led away by his crafty schemes. However, I must do my own part to capture and submit every thought to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5), knowing that it is Him who enables me to do that very thing.