As we celebrate Valentine’s Day, I think of a quote I shared awhile back that generated some push-back:
Man is the farmer
woman is the field.
The farmer plants
and the field responds.
Want a different harvest?
Cultivate the field!
Most women reading this get what I am saying. But, to expound on this thought: The Lord made woman from man and hence she has a unique capacity within her design that enables her to process both feelings and logic simultaneously. Women have a 30% greater integration of the left and right hemisphere (according to Dr. Daniel Goleman).
The man, being formed first, has a natural orientation to the outside world. Hence as Paul wrote: “If a man provide not for his family he is worse than an infidel…” (1 Timothy 5:8) Note: This admonition to men does not rob a woman of anything in terms of career, as Paul and Jesus were significantly funded throughout their ministry by key women of influence. It simply points out that men and women are designed differently. Let’s not miss this. By and large, men are driven by a desire for women to admire and respect them. Note how unemployment is such a keen blow to the psyche of a man in this regard. And women, while equally ambitious in the workplace perhaps, in matters of romance overall desire to be captivating to her man and want to feel connected. There has been a move by modern social engineers to emasculate men and make women masculine, which shows a lack of understanding of our innate design.
The farmer-field metaphor is biologically backed up as well, since the man has to impregnate the woman and the woman must be fertile at that time to conceive. The farmer-field metaphor, however, makes sense in a far more elegant and less sexual way when you consider this from an emotional perspective. Think about the atmosphere in the home. The farmer gets the harvest he plants depending on how he cultivates the receptivity of the field. A man cultivates a woman by the way he treats her, talks to her, touches her and generally, honors her. The Biblical admonition to men is to “nourish and cherish” the wife even as Christ does the church. (Ephesians 5:25-29)
The man has a unique authority in the home under God's system and as such he has the power and responsibility to make the field flourish. Failure to understand the field results in a loss of all God intended for both men and women.
This is neither sexist or unbiblical—it is wisdom from above!
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