Women servants of Yahweh should serve him faithfully, according to his word and not according to their own opinions or in haughtiness and carelessness. By so serving Yahweh faithfully he blesses them appropriately, watching over them for good and not for evil.
Yahweh shows no partiality in his service between men and women. Just as he has men servants in high position in his assembly so also he has women servants in high position in his assembly. He is the one who appoints individuals to various positions in his assembly. When he appoints a woman to a high position, even as shepherd or ruler of his entire assembly in a particular region over a particular period of time, his people should submit to his will and indeed appropriately submit to this woman shepherd.
When Yahweh's women servants administer their service duties according to Yahweh's word, all goes well. The people amongst whom they serve grow in Yahweh's ways and benefit from Yahweh's blessings. But when Yahweh's women servants seek to serve themselves rather than faithfully administer their duties, Yahweh's people veer off his ways and suffer curses. Yahweh thereby punishes such women servants who cause his people to err rather than to prosper in his ways.
While Yahweh has established equality with respect to service to him in his assembly between men and women, with his appointing women to high position even as he appoints men, the same is not the case in the family. For in the family Yahweh has firmly and clearly appointed a husband as head of his household, and his wife or wives are all to submit to his authority. A woman servant of Yahweh who disrespects and dishonours her husband risks being divorced by him, and suffering the reproach and shame of divorce. Such a woman had indeed failed in an aspect of serving Yahweh, seeing that being a good wife and mother is indeed an aspect of serving Yahweh.
Nevertheless, all is not lost for the divorced woman. For merciful Yahweh receives service even at the hand of divorced women. A divorced woman should therefore repent of her conduct that brought about her divorce, and should subsequently serve Yahweh faithfully, without disregarding any word of his subsequently.
In essence, a woman servant of Yahweh should serve him in whatever capacity he appoints for her. When he appoints high office for her, she should so serve him. When he appoints a humble officer for her, she should so serve him. Faithful and dedicated service to Yahweh serves him in whatever station he places one. That is, whether as part of Yah'shuah's gospel preaching team, or as part of extending hospitality to other servants of his, or in any other capacity, seeing that there are many ways that women servants can serve him.
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