The great mystery of Ephesians 5. Why do men still throw the submission card on the table? We're a liberated gender now. Submit? Pah! In your dreams! Woman Power! Burn the Bras! Pardon me, I digress. I can't answer why guys try to use this passage against us. But Ladies, seriously, we are called to submit. Our husbands are called to love us selflessly. As they love themselves. And believe it or not kids, this is the recipe for a lasting marriage. I can say that as a divorcee because it's common sense. The first step is marrying a believer to begin with. Jesus said to do this in II Corinthians 6 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?"
So first off don't marry a non believer. Then as believers put your marriage in the Lord's hands. Husbands love your wives like Christ loves us and Wives submit to your husbands. Full circle, the more we submit the more he will love. But it takes both people to make it work. Will it be perfect? Nope. It will be amazing and blessed and wonderful. More importantly full of God! Also, this is sheer common sense because women naturally are nurturing and more emotional and need LOVE to respond. We understand the emotional aspect of marriage and children. THAT'S WHY WE ARE THE ONES WHO DO IT! Men are logical. They naturally want to know the how and why things work the way they do. That is why they are our leaders. They aren't usually given to emotional fits of fancy. That's just the way it is.
A quick side note girls... When dating and shopping for THE ONE, keep that scripture in mind and don't yolk yourself with a non believer thinking you are creating evangelical or mission dating. I read a book and it was illustrated along these lines. Stand on a chair and have someone (an adult) stand next to you. Hold hands and try to pull them up onto the chair with you. I'll wait.......... Probably didn't go so well. Now have them pull you down off the chair. It's easier to be pulled down than to pull someone up. That is why God wants us to be yolked (yep like oxen) to someone we don't have to drag around. Eventually they'll be dead weight. If you can start out on the same spiritual playing field you've won half the battle. Now get out there, put your bra back on and be proud to fill the role that God gave us as women!
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*The Jesus Loving Princess*
*Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5*
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