Dear Mamas: Your Children Aren’t Your Highest Calling

A professor once said that 1 Timothy 2:15 which states a woman is “saved through childbirth” meant that she was “saved from a life of futility and uselessness.”

Now, that verse is tricky and many have taken different stabs at its interpretation. I know that professor was trying to put aside all the salvation of souls through having kids stuff because we are saved through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, not our own children.

But, the impact of those words, which felt highly insulting as childless woman, weren’t even acknowledged. Sitting next to another single woman as we heard those words, I said to her, “I’ll call you futile if you’ll call me useless.” What if I never married? Would this mean my life was always futile and useless?


Jamie Lath
Jamie Lath
Jamie Lath writes at GraceWalking.com about waking up to to being a lukewarm, apathetic Christian who thought she was doing okay but found out she wasn't. She focuses on practicing, not just professing, her faith through her every day life of being a wife and mother. You can stay connected with Jamie on Instagram and Facebook. This article fist appeared on Grace Walking. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamie.lath/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamieLath/ Website: http://gracewalking.com/

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