We must learn to accept rebuke calmly, consider the objective content of the rebuke, be slow to take offense, but always be ready for repentance and reconciliation.

Although God says that the husband is the head of the wife, when the husband abdicates his responsibilities, God will use the wife to get the job done. Deborah shows us that God will use whomever is willing to say, “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.”

The less chronologically mature a woman is, the more effective the bonding hormone is in influencing her decision to disobey the Word of God and become sexually active with a man for whom she has emotional feelings but is not married, so God gives less chronologically mature women a parental bodyguard to keep the woman from making an immoral decision.

Let us look at our children as Jesus looked at His disciples, and emulate Jesus’ example by living lives of character before them, and then by taking every opportunity to build up our children, not in self-esteem, but using discipline to develop character to build respect for the authority of God’s Word in them.