"If men had not domestic divinities, at least they had divine domesticities." — G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
Where Christian men abandoned household gods, they embraced household goddesses. Where the private idols were banished, feminine idiosyncrasies flourished. Every home has a despot and the Christian home is blessed to be dominated by Biblical femininity. Home is imprinted on women. They have homes hardwired into their existence. Their bodies can play host to new life and produce good food for growing life. They were made to be homes and to make home.
Domesticity and divinity are inescapable. You will either have a household god or you would have a godly household. What the Christian loses in abandoning the domestic idolatries, he inherits in the pleasure of divine domesticity. No one makes a home like a woman and by restoring her to her place as the queen of her kingdom, all Christendom is blessed.
1 Timothy 5:14
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
No idol can hold a candle to a Christian woman on fire for her family. Her flame comes from her Father above and her fruitfulness burns brightly to warm and enlighten her loved ones.
2 Timothy 1:6
Fan into flame the gift of God.
The flame of femininity is a fortress of comfort for husbands and children alike. It is inviting and invigorating. It can warm hands and cook food and cheerfully looks forward to both. May God again rid our homes of the domestic idolatries of feminism and chauvinism and restore the divinity of femininity and patriachal provision. May divine domesticities clean house and toss the old domestic divinities out the door.
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