Submission

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“In like manner, you married women, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate yourselves as being secondary to and dependent on them, and adapt yourselves to them], …” 1 Peter 3v1 (AMP)

“In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands…” 1 Peter 3v1 (NLT)

Submission is still something that many women shrink at or become defensive about. In an article by Veronica A. Robinson, called Wives, take your rightful position, which I would encourage you to read at http://www.sarasdaughters.com/articles.html, she says:

“Submission is not a position we welcome in marriage. It requires submitting or yielding to the authority or control of another. In the marriage, who should submit? Why would God require the wife to submit in the marriage? … First, Who Should Submit? Scripture clearly tells us it’s the wife’s responsibility to be in subjection to her husband. This does not imply any kind of natural inferiority on the part of the wife to her husband. In marriage, two people become one. Therefore, there are two intellects, two sets of emotions, and two wills that have been joined to constitute one. To keep the union from fracturing and destroying itself, one of these persons is charged with leadership in the relationship, and one is charged with submission. So wives submit to your husband as unto the Lord. This pleases God and it will make submitting a lot easier to do.”

I read a commentary about God making the woman, where Genesis 2v21-22 (KJV) says “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.” The commentary went along the lines of the woman was not taken out of man’s head, to be lord over him; or from his feet, to be trampled by him; but from his side, to be equal to him; from close to his heart, to be loved by him, and to be protected by him. I pray this is the reality we will have in all our marriages in Jesus name, amen.

 Supplementary Text

“[Instructions for Christian Households] Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.” Colossians 3v18 (NLT)

Father, I thank You for Your Word this day. Father, we know Your ways are best. We pray that You will bless our homes, that You will teach every wife what submission really is, how to submit and give the to submit to her own husband in Jesus name, amen.