[Faith-talk] FW: FW: [thefamilyoffaith] "Girls Come With Instructions" - Ron Hutchcraft Ministries

[Eric Calhoun]

I agree!  And I'll have something to say about that, in a moment.


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From: "Eric Calhoun" <eric at pmpmail.com>
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Subject: FW: [thefamilyoffaith] "Girls Come With Instructions" - Ron
Hutchcraft Ministries
Date: 
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:48:53 -0400




     
        
     
     

     
              
            Girls Come With Instructions
            Friday, April 20, 2012

            When my son was a teenager he used to read the Sunday
cartoons, and I heard him laughing out loud one day. He called out to me,
"Hey, Dad, come here. They got this one right!" He could really relate to
this particular cartoon, and knowing that this was something that would
help my intellectual development, he let me read it.
            There's a young man standing at his locker in school and he
says, "Could it be? I'm almost certain that she did! I'm sure that new
girl, Angie, smiled at me when I passed her in the hall just now!" See, my
guys could relate to this. Then this guy says, "Then again, maybe she's
just friendly and smiles at everyone like that." Then he says, "Or maybe
she was smiling at someone else and not at me at all." And then the final
panel he says, "(Sigh)...I wish girls came with instructions." They do.
             
            Now, our word for today from the Word of God comes from 1
Timothy 5:2. It's part of a passage that gives us instructions on how a
Christian man should treat various groups. And then, we get to how he
should treat the women; especially the younger women. Here's what it says,
"Treat the younger women as sisters with absolute purity."
            Well, what do you know? Girls do come with instructions. And
the instructions are, "Treat them as sisters with absolute purity." I'll
tell you, that's a pretty revolutionary concept for modern male/female
relationships. We men are raised to treat women as conquests, not sisters;
as someone to know mostly on a physical level, not as a person in a family
kind of relationship.
             
            Interesting! Sometimes you'll hear someone describing
something that's relatively unexciting in this way, "Oh, it's sort of like
kissing your sister." You know, a relationship with your sister is not
primarily physical; it's a family deal. The point of what Paul is saying
is, "That's what we ought to be seeking as men in our relationships with
women."
            The bonds between a brother and sister aren't based on a
physical relationship; it's a friendship - a bonding based on something
much deeper, shared experiences, laughing together, crying together,
shopping, eating, arguing, and celebrating.
             
            Relationships between men and women become much more
complicated, much more tense, much more unnatural, when they're dominated
by a romantic agenda or a sexual agenda. If only we could turn in our
hunting license and quit looking for girlfriends, and start looking for
girls who are friends.
            One characteristic of a brother's love is protection. Man,
I'll tell you, a brother won't let anything happen to his sister. Well,
you
know, it's time we men start to protect every woman around us from being
used, from being cheapened by physical involvement, to begin to give them
the royal treatment and the loyal treatment that a sister deserves. And
it's time women begin to tell men that they want real relationships that
are centered in Christ and committed to purity; to tell them that by the
way they dress, and the way they move, and the way they talk.
            Men and women? Well, they're always going to be a mystery to
each other, but we've made it much more confusing than it needs to be.
Start looking for sisters to build up, not lovers to conquer; people to
minister to.
            That's how we were created to be with each other. I know
that, because I've read God's manufacturer's book, and girls do come with
instructions.
           
     

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