Disorderly Wives. Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021.

Introduction. One of the challenges that comes with getting married is that

barring any high crimes, it is a vocation that comes with tenure.

This is why it is so important for courting couples to prioritize issues of character

as distinct from issues of flash and personality, to think more about the stake and less about

the sizzle. Given the setup, a husband and a wife both need to be self-motivated people when it comes

to doing what God has called them to do. But unfortunately, because it is a calling that comes with

lifetime tenure, some individuals, once they are married, lapse into behaviors that would get them

fired from any other job. This certainly happens with both sexes, but the challenge is a particularly

hard when the disorderly one is the wife. The earth is disquieted and cannot really handle four

things, and one of them is an odious woman when she is married, Proverbs 30-23. The second paragraph

rule. Now a number of years ago, I wrote a piece in Credenta that subsequently raised some iron

various quarters, which is par for the course. But when I returned and read that piece years later,

it seemed to me that the blows I was receiving around my head and shoulders were largely deserved.

This is not because the point I was making was a bad one. It was very similar to the point I

want to make with this post, but rather, because I made the point ham-handedly. I was not arguing that

if a wife fails on one occasion to load the dishwasher properly, as she ought to have done, that the

husband should call in the elders. But it certainly could have been taken that way, hence this correction.

So let's not do that again, right guys? This time we will make it clear that I'm talking about

situations that are both serious and troubling. We live in a generation that is largely abandoned

in sex roles in the home, which means that many young women have not been taught how to be

homemakers at all. And when you combine this with the widespread societal reluctance to be critical

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