“Slave Labor” was the title of an article that has circulated on the Internet for several years. It was part of a chapter from a 1954 Home Economics textbook to be taught to high school girls. The excerpt trained girls to be housewives whose duty was to get the children, home, and dinner ready for the arrival of her husband. The last point is this: “Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can relax”. Treat him like a king, and view yourself as his servant, it was saying.
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.. In fact, Debi herself was tempted to leave out some of the not-so-politically-correct material for fear it would diminish sales. Michael, her husband told her, “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. The role for married women is to do all she can to make her husband a success. Attempting to take on the man’s role will result in damage to her marriage, her children, and herself.
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”.
In a nutshell, the book says, wives, stop trying to change your husband into what you want and start letting God change you into the woman He wants. The result will often be, surprisingly, that God will use you to change him. In other words, if you treat him as a king, he may well treat you as his queen. But this is not your purpose.
Most women whose marriage is far from what she dreamed it would be feel they are the exception to the principles presented here. The author does not ignore these and gives many illustrations and answers questions from various difficult marriage situations. Neither does she skirt the subject of sex but handles it in a clear but discrete way.
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.
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