Horace Leister, Eldoret, Kenya 2010
I married this great man, I love, Horace Leister June 7, 1975!
God created the earth, gave dominion over his beloved creation to the man he created in His own image, that he may rule, but he did not want one man he wanted men. In fact commanded this! ( Genesis 1:28)
God could cause men to spring up from the stones, as He told Moses on the mountain but God did not want men of stone but a family made in His own image, so He gave man a helpmate to accomplish this.
Have you ever run in a 3 legged race?
Marriage can be kind of like that, in the natural. It takes the full strength of both participants to get from point A to Point B, let alone win the race!
If you fall, each participant can lay there and blame the other but in all truth, unless you both get up and try again you are out of the race.
Thank God marriage is more binding than a short piece of rope at the thigh and ankle.
When I looked up the word “ helpmate”, I found “ wife “ as the primary definition.
Helpmate, literally means the one who comes up under their partners arm pit and carries them, if need be, as far and as long as is required.
While being our partners support, our husbands arm is covering us with God’s mandate, to forsake all else and others for a relationship of oneness with us, his helpmate. Genesis 2:24
Even after Horace and I made decisions to follow Jesus Christ as our savior, our marriage resembled the 3 legged race, for sometime, thankfully we did not give up on it and would pull each other up and try again.
Eventually God brought us to the point where we were willing to see marriage as He sees it, a supernatural state of being. Two lives flowing together to make one with the help of Holy Spirit. Not two separate lives tied together awkwardly.
Partly this took place because of a prayer Horace began to pray for me, his helpmate, the mother of his children.
You can read this prayer in Proverbs 31:10-31. “ These are the sayings of King Lemuel-an oracle his mother taught him” NIV Describing a wife and mother with the character qualities to raise up kings and queens.
We are in the possession of kings and Queens in the making. Just as king Lemuel’s mother was. As we have said all along here “ Superior works of Art, envisioned in the heart of The King of Kings!"
When presenting a work of Art, the Frame makes all the difference, it is really what can catch the eye.
God showed me as I was writing this how our character as wives in relationship with our husbands as there helpmates is the frame work needed for our labor of love, motherhood.
Let us close our eyes and envision the frame that would give our masterpiece the best presentation to bring Glory to our King and Father God.
A note for mothers with out husbands, God has promised to never leave us or fore sake us. He is our Husband and the Father to our children. Psalm 68:5 “ A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, Is God in his holy dwelling.” NIV
Loving the Father! Phyllis Leister
