Gender Roles & Women being saved through Childbearing!

Category: Spiritual/AgapeCitizen


1 Timothy 2:15 “Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety”

I’m not a feminist! Nor am I someone who speaks in favor or rises up flags for womanhood!!! But through Childbearing and raising my son, I’ve come to experience the untold parallels between the two worlds. A physical world of Women Childbearing/Childcare is no different from the spiritual world of salvation!

First let’s look, what exactly is salvation. A large part of it is being born again is Christ the Lord!

But what follows to sustain this born again experience in the spiritual world, is renouncing the flesh and living for Jesus Christ.

1. Luke 9:3 “And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me”.  
2. John 12: 24 goes on to say “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit.” 
3. More so, the immerse water baptism symbolizes a person being dead to himself to raise up again to live for God Jesus Christ.

Now, those mothers out there, do these three pointed verses above ring a bell. Unconsciously across the world, religions, dialect or race, a woman through childbearing experiences the same.

1. A mother denies herself of her own likes, identity and dreams to take up the HUGE, I say literally HUGE responsibility of Childbearing/childcare. Labour pain is literally a re-birth for every mother!! And Childcare that follows, is all about living and doing every bit for the Child. There is no self or self-interest in being a mother. Even sleep to our eyes is a gift granted from the family responsibilities and child’s comfort sleep. 
2. Like a corn of wheat that falls to die, we from being a princess, fall down into the ground to serve, serve and serve our loved ones. Cleaning the potty with bare fingers that we once disgusted to see, being relieved from hearing the unpleasant burp which we once felt embarrassed to hear, churning meal after meal which my lazy hands once denied cooking. In all this, we aim only to bring forth fruit. The fruit called Family Support and Child Growth. 
3. We literally and quite literally die to ourselves and raise up to live for our family post childbearing. All this said, Our sacrifices bring back to us the best of Fruits! Called “Unadulterated Love” back from our child. It may be true that my son will eventually leave someday! But what I experience from him and my husband today, makes all my sacrifices worthy. I’m so filled with love, that both look up to me and just me for love, comfort or care. I can imagine how Christ would feel when I reciprocate back to His Sacrificial Love on the Cross, like that.

Though, I believe Men share equal responsibility and provide greater support for Women during Child Care, what a woman goes through as a sacrificial transformation is on harmonized parallels with the experience of Salvation in Christ!

Christ died for us!
A Woman dies for herself to live for her child and then family.

Many Cases of Depression or Anxiety or Guilt (which I must admit that I go through in synapses as well, Thankfully I’m blessed with a husband who loves and supports me through and out of it patiently), for New-Mom’s, happens literally because of denial of the above perspective. Switching back and forth between Depression: Self (Interests, dreams, and Comfort) that is lost and Anxiety: rising up to live to the sudden responsibilities of Family (Food, Household Chores, Child Care,……) can only make Denial worse. Still remote are the multi-faceted roles of working mothers! God alone gives them the strength to meet the demands of job and home.

So, much sacrificial a Woman becomes, that 1 Timothy 2:15 goes on to say “she shall be saved in childbearing”!!!

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