Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair. I was sitting on a good friend's couch the other day as our

kids played in the living room around us when she brought up an interesting theological question.

She and a coworker had been talking about it the day before and

although she had disagreed with the coworker on the topic, she was nervous to speak up about it.

To the specific question is not what's important here. What is important

is that as she and I began discussing the same question of whether something was or wasn't

prohibited in scripture, I felt myself feeling uncomfortable too.

You see, the topic in question had to do with how we're called to live as mothers.

And although we were inclined to believe the Bible said one thing, we both felt

uncomfortable saying that out loud, even to each other, two close friends who

regularly share vulnerable and openly with one another.

And it made us think, why?

Why are we so uncomfortable being definitive about this?

Why does it feel bad to say that there might be a right way to live?

See, that discomfort with a topic made me realize very quickly how much I was letting cultural messages surrounding motherhood and my autonomy influence my thought life,

my beliefs, and ultimately my actions.

You see, I didn't want to admit that the gospel might call me to live in a certain specific way.

It might limit my choices.

It might call me to do hard things.

It might ask me to live in a certain way, to mother in a certain way. And I didn't

want to admit it because I had drunk the cultural Kool-Aid that told me that everyone should

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