Corrie

Cheryl,

This was a very good post. I have been thinking a lot about this issue lately and your post helped me flesh out my thoughts even more.

MacArthur’s comments kind of startle me.

Men are given divine dominion? It seems from my reading of scripture that men and women are both given dominion. I don’t know what adding “divine” really means when he uses it that way. Is it significant that he says that men are given “divine dominion” instead of regular old “dominion”?

You are right that women have everything a man has spiritually. We receive all of it from God as His gift to us. Spiritual insight and wisdom is not given according to gender.

God said that man was in need. It would seem that would be something that would be humbling to a man instead of cause for grabbing the number one position?

In our humanness, we often don’t want to admit that we are in need because it hurts our pride. When I come to realize that I am lacking and I have need, it causes me to be dependent and in a position of humility and gratefulness to those (or God, Himself) who supplies what I lack.

When someone comes to me and supplies what I am lacking, I don’t immediately grab the opportunity to claim superiority and authority over them. When we are in need and lacking we are not in the position to have this sort of attitude.