Does Debi Pearl’s book, Created To Be His Help Meet Contain Sound Advice?
“Slave Labor” was the title of an article that has circulated on the Internet for several years. It was actually an extract from a 1954 Home Economics textbook for high school girls. The article presented the housewife’s list of duties as preparing the home, dinner, and children so that the arrival of her husband is a singular event. “Try to make your home a place of peace and order where you husband can relax,” is the final point. In short, she was to treat him as a king arriving home to his castle.
A woman who is repulsed by such teaching would NOT welcome the core ideas of Debi Pearl’s book, Created to Be His Help Meet.. Indeed, the author herself admits to being tempted to skirt not-so-politically-correct issues that would cause her to lose sales. Her husband responded, “If God thought it was important enough to inspire it as part of His Word to us, then you should include it”.
For those wanting God’s message to them, this is a great book. It is based solely on the teaching of Scripture without regard to what is ‘popular’. Debi did a thorough study of the role of women in the Bible to prepare for this book. It is based on the design principle, that God created woman unique with an important role in society. That role is to be a helpmeet to her husband. If instead she decided to take on his role, she will damage her marriage, children, the spirit of her home, and miss her own fulfilling purpose.
About this book the author states, “It took four years, thousands of hours, many tears, revisions and distractions, but I finally finished my book. I had no idea God had so much to say to us ladies until I began going through God’s Word verse by verse, writing the different sections of Created to Be His Help Meet”.
The book could be summarized in the phrase, “Quit trying to make your husband into the man you think he should be and, instead, allow God to make you into the woman He designed you to be”. Often this results in his changing for the good too. If he is treated as a king, he will treat his wife as the queen. However, this is not the goal of your responses.
Every troubled wife feels she is the exception to the principles presented in such a fundamental book. Debi does not skirt difficult situations but includes questions and answers from the Bible. She also deals with intimate subjects in a discrete but clear manner.
The fact that, at this writing, the book is in its 8th printing in four years is a strong endorsement. Though some churches have even banned it (!), the letters to the Pearls’ No Greater Joy Ministry telling of marriages that have been transformed as a result of reading and applying this book, speak volumes about its genuineness as a tool for women to see themselves as God designed them, not as inferior or superior, but as unique.
Debi Pearl is the author of multiple best sellers including Created to Be His Help Meet and [The Vision|Listen To My Dream]. You can find out more on her website.
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