Let a Woman Learn
One of the most offensive and out-of-touch assumptions modern feminism makes is that being a wife and mother is an insignificant, demeaning, and brainless responsibility. It’s subtly embedded in comments like, “I want to be more than just a wife and a mom.” Convincing entire generations of women that pushing papers is more meaningful than raising children is one of the greatest swindles in history.
There’s a story about a traveler who encountered three stonecutters. Intrigued by their work, the traveler asked the first, “What are you doing?” The man replied, “I’m a stonecutter. I’m cutting stones.” The traveler was dissatisfied with this statement of the obvious. He asked the second stonecutter, who replied, “I’m a stonecutter. I’m earning a living.” The traveler’s real question remained unanswered, so he asked the third stonecutter, “What are you doing?” This man replied, “I’m a stonecutter. I’m building a cathedral!”
When we lose sight of the big picture, it’s easy to despise the small tasks required to accomplish glorious feats.
Walk into a Christian home and observe a mom in action. You may find her changing diapers, reading books, picking up toys, writing a grocery list, cooking dinner, or doing the laundry. But what is she really doing? What is her cathedral answer?
Mothers raise worshipers.
That’s the aim of marriage.
“Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring” (Malachi 2:15).
The point is not just to have children, but to raise godly children brought up “in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).
And that is no mindless task. It requires intentionality, wisdom, discernment, and diligence.
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7).
The ultimate aim of parenting is worship, children who glorify God by enjoying him forever.
“Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made” (Isaiah 43:6–7).
Any teenager can take a babysitting class and learn how to change a diaper. But parents aren’t babysitters. They’re disciple-makers. The glory of God is the cathedral they have in mind when they’re wiping noses, bandaging knees, and spanking bottoms.
And the earth will be full of worshipers (Habakkuk 2:14).
Being a wife and mom is not a menial job. It requires great intelligence, skill, and character. Just consider the excellent wife in Proverbs 31:
“She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard” (Proverbs 31:16).
“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue” (Proverbs 31:26).
“She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness” (Proverbs 31:27).
So it makes sense that Paul would tell Timothy, a young pastor in Ephesus, that one of his priorities in the church should be to “let a woman learn” (1 Timothy 2:11-15 ).
Motherhood requires deep theology, sound doctrine, and gospel fluency because moms raise worshipers.