Part of the human problem today is the systematic and widespread breakdown of the family unit.
More and more, I encounter people from broken homes. Divorce is as common as fleas on a stray. Single-parent families are mushrooming at an alarming rate.
It's a telling sign of how far we've strayed from God. We no longer accept His blueprint for family life, and we disregard the roles He has designated for us.
"Submission" is a dirty word, and the "modern" woman worth her salt would never be caught dead submitting to her husband. It's a sign of "weakness". Women rule. Men, if they love their wives, should listen to and obey everything they say.
Why has it become this way?
Because, like love, the concept of submission has been distorted by this world. It's portrayed as demeaning, debasing, inhuman, weak.....archaic. This argument definitely appeals to a person's misguided pride.
I know many women who try to rule, who bridle at the concept of submitting to their husbands, but they don't have a happy marriage. The home becomes a battle ground, children the casualty. That sacred relationship between husband and wife is wrecked, replaced with a "battle of the sexes" mentality.
Of course, the women complain that they don't respect their husbands. Then why marry him in the first place? Never marry a man you cannot submit to.
And then the men's part in all this: they get confused between "submission" and "slavery". The whole Me-Tarzan-you-Jane thing comes into play. Yes, sure, wives are supposed to submit to their husbands, but men are supposed to love their wives as well.
Love their wives, not as a miser loves his gold, not as a man taking pride in his luxury car or prize-winning thoroughbred, but as they love their own bodies, the way Christ loves the church.
Sadly, some men mistake their headship as carte blanche to be jerks. Puffed up by the idea of leadership, they assume their wives are nothing more than chattel or servants.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. - Ephesians 5:22-30
More and more, I encounter people from broken homes. Divorce is as common as fleas on a stray. Single-parent families are mushrooming at an alarming rate.
It's a telling sign of how far we've strayed from God. We no longer accept His blueprint for family life, and we disregard the roles He has designated for us.
"Submission" is a dirty word, and the "modern" woman worth her salt would never be caught dead submitting to her husband. It's a sign of "weakness". Women rule. Men, if they love their wives, should listen to and obey everything they say.
Why has it become this way?
Because, like love, the concept of submission has been distorted by this world. It's portrayed as demeaning, debasing, inhuman, weak.....archaic. This argument definitely appeals to a person's misguided pride.
I know many women who try to rule, who bridle at the concept of submitting to their husbands, but they don't have a happy marriage. The home becomes a battle ground, children the casualty. That sacred relationship between husband and wife is wrecked, replaced with a "battle of the sexes" mentality.
Of course, the women complain that they don't respect their husbands. Then why marry him in the first place? Never marry a man you cannot submit to.
And then the men's part in all this: they get confused between "submission" and "slavery". The whole Me-Tarzan-you-Jane thing comes into play. Yes, sure, wives are supposed to submit to their husbands, but men are supposed to love their wives as well.
Love their wives, not as a miser loves his gold, not as a man taking pride in his luxury car or prize-winning thoroughbred, but as they love their own bodies, the way Christ loves the church.
Sadly, some men mistake their headship as carte blanche to be jerks. Puffed up by the idea of leadership, they assume their wives are nothing more than chattel or servants.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. - Ephesians 5:22-30
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