october update

Submission in Marriage

“The same goes for you wives: Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs. There are husbands who, indifferent as they are to any words about God, will be captivated by your life of holy beauty. What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes— but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands.”  1 Peter 3:1-6

BLESSING:    

I bless you with a heart to be a wife who is godly and fears the Lord (stands in awe and loves Him).  May you have a submissive heart toward the husband God give you.  I bless you with a gentle and quiet spirit which is very precious in the sight of God.  May you be a woman of strength and honor. You will open your mouth with wisdom, and kindness will be on your tongue. May you be a wife who tends to her husband’s household knowing you are pleasing the Lord. 

      The verses above start out with ‘the same goes for you wives.’ To find out what this means, we must look back at the chapter before this one.  So, before you go on, stop and read chapter of 1 Peter.  I’ll wait!!!

I can hear some of you gals thinking, “Hey, what about my husband?”  There’s much in God’s Word for the husband and how he should love His wife like Christ loves the church. However, I’m not writing to the husbands.  I’ll let Paul take care of that, which he does.  But, don’t wait on your husband to obey God’s Word.  You be the first to obey what He commands. He doesn’t give suggestions like may believe.  “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous (burdensome).” 1 John 5:3

      Some other words we can use for submission would be to support, undergird, lift up, encourage your husband.  God says we are his help (a helper, aid) meet (suitable or fit).