Welcome to this special bonus episode on Keep the Heart for Mother's Day.

There's a passage of scripture that gives us what I like to call an eight-point job description,

and it's found in Titus chapter 2, verses 3 through 5, but I'm only going to focus on verse 4 today

because it has an unusual instruction in it that's very obvious.

In fact, it's so obvious I wonder why God

had to even put it there. Why did we have to be told to do something that should come naturally to us?

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor. Francie is an author,

conference speaker, and teacher. She is passionate about teaching what to do with what we learn

from God's Word. Now back to today's valuable study. If you're not familiar with Titus Chapter 2 verses 3 through 5, I encourage you to go back

and look at that passage of scripture. I also wrote about it in detail in the book,

Teachers of Good Things, and that's available in the shop at Keep the Heart.

Titus chapter 2, verse 4, has three instructions, that they may teach the young women

to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. Verse 4 is the beginning of the list

of eight items. The first thing in the list is teaching the women to be sober, which is sound-minded,

and then it goes directly to the husbands,

to love their husbands. That's an obvious instruction. You would think we wouldn't need to be told

that. But then think about your relationship if you're a married lady. Have there ever been any

times when you didn't feel very lovable towards your husband or you felt like he was not a

lovable person? You'll understand then why

God had to remind us to love our husbands because there are times when neither one of us is very

lovable. But to love their children, why did we have to be instructed to teach young women

to love their children? Because God knew that there would be times

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