Question, When you hear the words (submit / submission / submissive), what does it mean to you? What comes to mind?
Check this out. Married or not, as a believer, God has called all of us to submit. ( Eph.5:24 )- Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
I don’t know what it is about that word (submission) that puts people in a frenzy. The world today thinks it to be modern day slavery, and to some born again believing wives, it means to be a form of control, which ultimately means the same thing, but only worded differently.
All I know is for those who call themselves a believer in Christ, and choose to be rebellious and come up with every excuse in the book as to why they CAN’T, WON’T, or REFUSE TO, submit to their husbands, can call it whatever they want, but God calls it SIN! Ask me how I know….
When you speak about the word submission today, even to the born again believers, you’ll be quick to hear, “submit to who, I’m not submitting to no man”. But, my only problem is this, how can you say that as a wife, or as a single believer, and say you live for Christ. If you’re married and not submitting to your husband, or a single believer, and not submitting to the Lord, you’re submitting to something or someone.
As you read here it’s one of God’s commands as a wife or the church, married or not ( Eph.5:22 – 24) Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church (you the people) submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. (Col.3:18 )Wives, be subject to your husbands [out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God], as is proper and fitting in the Lord. Catch that part of the scripture ( fitting in the Lord), not fitting to you!
And, the scripture above (Col.3:18)! Please know this, that scripture is not talking about a building….the CHURCH is (you and I) the people. The Believer!
So, for all you wives out here who find it hard to be submissive (in everything) to your husband, you’re living a life in sin and it’s not satisfying to the Lord sis! It’s just that simple.
( Luke 6:46) Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
If you can’t be obedient in the little things, how do you think you can be obedient in the bigger things God wants to open you up to and bring your way? ( John 14:15)“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
If submitting to God is a problem, then being submissive to your husband is not going to be any where on the table, believer or not! There’s no way someone can say they live in submission to God, but won’t live in submission to their husband in everything, there’s just no way. so you need to, Stop believing you are holy, you’re not! Stop thinking you are a Godly wife, you’re anything but! Quit conjuring up you are serving Christ, because you’re not! And stop thinking God is fooled, He’s not! He’s your creator! The only person being fooled is you, believing you can actually fool Him..
If you do not live daily in complete submission to your husband, what you’re really doing as a woman of God is mocking, defaming, bringing shame to, insulting, disgracing, dishonoring, and slinging mud at the Word of God!
Question, Do you call yourself a woman after God’s own heart? Then stop it! And start being the obedient woman of God you were created to be, and be obedient to the Word of God! (Jam. 4:17) Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
To submit means not doing things your way, but handing your ways of doing things over to another. It means putting your desires under, and placing another’s over. If you find a problem with being submissive to your husband, and following his lead as God leads him, then as a woman of God, that’s going to have to be something you take up with the Lord. Just know that God is the One you are aiming to please and obey, by being submissive to your husband, because we are commanded to do so, like it or not. (Col. 3:23) Whatever you do [whatever your task may be], work from the soul (that is, put in your very best effort), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men. (Col.3:18) Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
All submissiveness means is; Selflessness (Phil.2:3-4)Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
(is loving other people – it’s being patient and kind, it is not being envious of what other people have, it is not rude to other people, you concern more with the needs and wishes of others than with one’s own), Service (John 12:26)If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
(the action of helping or doing work for someone),
Accountability ( Heb, 10:24-25) And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
(is one believer submitting to the Christ-centered admonition of another believer in one or more areas of life), and Respect for your partner ( Eph. 4:32) Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
(which is mutual) and has absolutely nothing to do with being someone’s slave, or, (“as women” losing our voice”).
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