ADAM, WHERE ARE YOU?

We are living in different and difficult times than our Fathers lived. Things have changed. The women are no longer content in just staying at home and raising babies. The society has shown them that they are equal if not better than men. And so now any thing that a  man can do a woman can do also. Women in some homes have even taken the role of being the bread winner. In short the woman has been empowered.

So what does this mean as far as marriage is concerned. Does it mean that just because the woman is ahead economically, earns more than the man, that she is now the head of the family? Does the woman empowerment mean that her role in the family has changed. No, being ahead doesn't necessarily mean that you are now the head.

God is clear about the matter of equality. I Peter 3:7; the Bible exhorts husbands to treat their wives as equal partners in marriage. Husband and Wife are equal, but their roles are different. The man is and should be the head of the family and the wife should submit herself to his leadership. But where the man fails to take leadership, like the first man Adam did in Genesis chapter 3:6, the woman is left with no option but to usurp his authority and what happens next is a disaster.

This is what is happening in our Nation today with the whole issue of Husband battering. The man has absconded his role, he has failed to take responsibility in the home no wonder the women are asking where are the men? Adam where are you? Thus the woman has had to not only handle her responsibilities of taking care of the home and children, but also taking over the man's responsibilities of providing. And thus she ends up being very frustrated and the result is the violence we are witnessing now in our nation.