Servitude Simplifies Life

‘Many women today are overwhelmed with the complexity of life. They are floundering because they have no focal point. When their expectations are not realized, their emotional equilibrium erupts. When career, marriage, or children do not give them the security or significance they anticipated, their confidence evaporates. They are influenced by the unrealistic images of life and womanhood portrayed in the media. Their purpose in life is shared by their desires to attain the personal happiness they are told they deserve.  So they are not only disappointed by unrealized expectations, they are defeated.

Christian women are not immune to this. A four-letter word causes us enormous problems: self. Our self-inclination will send us reeling unless we have settled that core issue: what is our life-purpose? Once God’s glory is our purpose, then we have a center point to which we can relate each decision and each situation. Servitude simplifies life.’ Susan Hunt in Spiritual Mothering