Marriage Volume 1, Issue 4

A wife is called to "submit" to her own husband in our text below. In our society women have truly been conditioned not to even allow the word "submit" to be apart of their vocabulary. This was truly a well played moved by the enemy. Yes, there have been men that have not stepped up to the roles that they were suppose to play in their households. A result of this broken structure allowed women to raise their daughters with the belief that they did not need a man for anything in life. The empowerment of women has not been the issue, it was the simultaneous emasculation of men. While women found their voice in excelling in work and education, the identity of a man became stripped to the point that many men today do not know their proper roles in our society. The scripture says for a woman to be submitted to their "OWN" husband, which makes us want to take a look at why this distinction was made. Sadly, in our society women have found religion and in so doing they become submitted to their Pastors. When a husband hears; "Pastor Says", it turns them so far away from God. Wives your submission to your husband is not conditional to their relationship to God, and please do not let anyone tell you otherwise, 1 Corinthians 7:13-15. The only condition you had was when the question was asked "Do you take this man", if you said yes, God calls you to be submitted unto him. The grounds for divorce is were there has been a matter of adultery that could not be reconciled, a matter of abuse, or the unbelieving husband decides to leave. The world and the enemy has done an excellent job of tearing down men. If a wife continues to tear down her husband instead of building him up through respect and submission he will never come to the place were he would want to sacrificially love her and cover her as he ought to. God created a "help meet" for Adam in Genesis 2:15-25. Eve was created to help Adam fulfill the purpose that God created for. In a marriage that is healthy and according to God's Will, the wife is giving her all to help her husband become what God created him to be. To fulfill the purpose God created us for is the greatest accomplishment we can make in this life and husbands desperately need the help of the ONE woman God created for him. WIVES, show the world the submission that the Church has for it's Bride Groom which is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of enjoying Marriage on purpose!!!!! Ephesians 5 Marriage—Christ and the Church 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body,[d] of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”[e] 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.