The woman is to submit to the husband’s leadership as it is
commanded by God; this is a major function of a woman in a marriage.
‘You wives must submit
to your husbands’ leadership in the same way you submit to the lord. For a
husband is in charge of his wife in the way Christ is in charge of his body the
church. (He gave his very life to take care of it and be its savior!) So you
wives must willingly obey your husbands in everything, just as the church obeys
Christ’ (Ephesians 5:22-24 TLB)
Most women seems to misunderstand the principle of
submission to ones husband, they seems to take submission as being naïve in
everything, they find it hand to follow because they are having the impression
that submission to ones husband means you are accepting to be inferior to your
husband. I could remember a certain woman who came to me complaining that she
is getting tired of trying to make her husband see that she is submissive. I
told her woman! You don’t try to submit to your husband, you just do it, and do
it to please the lord and not your husband, and you will see how faithful God
is.
Submitting to your husband does not make you inferior to him
or less human; take that away from your mind. When you submit yourself to your
husbands’ leadership, you are submitting to the will of God. Always see
yourself as a help meet and partner to your husband and you will see the grace
of God abound in your life and that of your family. Submission is an attitude
or frame of mind. It recognizes that just as Christ was subject to God and that
as Church is subject to Christ, so a woman ought to be subjected to the
husband, by this attitude the woman is saying i believe God has arranged this
structure for her overall good.
A woman should transfer the responsibility for final
decisions to her husband. A woman is designed to see things in a perspective
which sometimes elude a man, a woman has the obligation to provide her husband
the benefit of this perspective and after this you leave the final decision for
your husband. Even after sharing your
views and you feel your husband is making the wrong decision don’t nag with
him, still go ahead and tell him, if he disagree with your decision, allow him
to implement that decision the way he sees fit. If you see that a mistake is
about to be made, just take it to God in prayer and you will see him come into
the matter. If a woman has an opinion to make to her husband and the husband is
not asking for it, she should just go ahead and give it. The book of proverbs
31:26 KJV says ‘she opened her mouth with
wisdom: and in her tongue is the law of kindness’.
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