SUNDAY January 12, 2025
A Fitting Submission
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Colossians 3:18
Notice the correct context of a Christian wife’s submission––as is fitting in the Lord. A wife is not to submit to sin––bottom line. God will never ask you to submit to abuse. If your husband is abusing you, then biblically, you can separate for a time to pray and see if there is true change (1 Corinthians 7:5).
Submission is to be seen in the right light of Scripture. A woman does not submit because she is forced to. Her husband is not to be like a sergeant major barking orders at her. She fittingly submits to her husband because it is the right thing to do as he is loving toward her.
In the case of a Christian woman married to a nonbeliever, she has to be the role model in the home. She has to spiritually lead her children by taking them to church and reading the Bible to them. Lovingly, you might have to sit down and explain to your children the situation and pray together for their father. Allow the Holy Spirit to work in your children’s hearts and minds. Spiritually, they will see a difference between parents.
As a Christian wife, be submissive to your husband even if he does not know the Lord. This way, you can become a good witness to him:
Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear (1 Peter 3:1-2).
Marriage is a love relationship where husbands and wives have different roles. There are only two basic principles in marriage; a wife is to submit to her husband, and a husband is to love his wife. It is so simple––submit and love––but it is also hard. There are times when a husband has to swallow his pride––the wife, too. The reason there is so much divorce, even within the church, is because there is a failure to submit to one another in the fear of God (Ephesian 5:21).
True love is an act of the will – a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.
~Billy Graham~
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