Let me give you something you need to know.

The first half of your life, women, you make an investment, the dividends of which you will reap the second half.

It flips over.

This woman would raise her children, and when her children were old enough to be on their own, they would spend the rest of their life

blessing the woman who gave her life to them.

That's God's design.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Today's culture encourages women to aspire to leadership, perhaps in a business setting or in the

academic world. But what happens when pursuing that goal removes a wife and mother from where her

giftedness is most needed and best used in the home? Can a woman work outside the home and please God? What if she has the energy

to manage her home and care for her kids and take an outside job? What if her outside work

is ministry-oriented, maybe serving her local church? Today on Grace to You, John MacArthur

will give you principles for discovering God's

design for a successful woman. Get practical answers that you need, and if you're a husband or a husband

to be, you need to hear John's message as well. So follow along in Proverbs chapter 31.

To depreciate the role of a homemaker is pretty foolish. The breadth of the

role of homemaker is amazing. To be able to be an economist, a steward of funds and resources,

to be able to analyze all the products available, to be

strong enough and well-planned enough to make the right moves at the right time to acquire

the right things, to be fully a wife to your husband and a tender and loving mother to

all of your children,

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