Eric Davis

A Review of Debi Pearl’s book, Created To Be His Help Meet

An article entitled “Slave Labor” 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. In summary, the girls were taught to be good housewives by preparing their homes, their supper meal, and their children for the arrival of their hard working husbands. It ends with, “Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can relax”. In other words, treat him as you would a king arriving at the palace.

An article entitled “Slave Labor” has circulated on the internet for several years. The list was purported to be an extract from a high school Home Economics textbook from 1954. In summary, the girls were taught to be good housewives by preparing their homes, their supper meal, and their children for the arrival of their hard working husbands. 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.

Women who agree that this sounds like slave labor would NOT appreciate the instruction Debi Pearl presents in her book, Created to Be His Help Meet. Indeed, the author was aware that some of the material would not be welcomed in today’s western culture and was tempted to leave it out. However, her husband Michael advised 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 on Scripture without fear of man, or other women, or of being called ‘old fashioned’. 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 purpose for a married woman is primarily to serve her husband, to make him 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. Often when the husband sees these remarkable, biblical changes in his wife, he will change also. 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. 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. Some pastors even banned the book from their church, but, on the other hand, the many letters from women (and men) who are grateful for what God did in their marriage as a result of the book testify to its effectiveness in teaching God’s ways for women, as His unique creations.

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