Eph. 5:22-24 - Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives and Husbands 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. (NIV)
Control or submission is the issue and question here. Why? This verse has been the bane of many women existence. However, the problem as occurred because we don’t get this truth of this verse Acts. 20:35 - In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ” - keying in on its more blessed to give than to receive. The more likely than not, the struggle with submitting to the husband or anyone else, is this - we intrinsically know, innate sense about a person, they are asking for what they have not given. Therefore, when you have submitted, you get it. You begin ‘to see’ it is not about control, and realized it is about humility, not arrogant pride that cripples us. Then, we can let God fight our battles, prepare the table before us in the presence of our enemies, and be still and know He is God.
We cannot do this in our relationships, when we do not. It does not matter what kind of relationship it s, we are creating mêlée when we do not ‘get it’ because we desire control. When you truly understand what control, being in power means, we are overwhelmed by the sheer immensity of it. For it takes us to task with every decision, because it is not emotional driven, not a flash in the pan grab an issue and go, but rather it is discovered it is the about staying the course. Staying the course and doing what is right, not what we have the right to do for it is predicated by our emotional laden egos. The tears roll down knowing one must do, what is seen as a sacrifice for the future greater good, but there is a presence hurt one cannot explain because it is out of the cultural norm to do.
See when we learn, we do not get, what we are unwilling to give; then we shall see changes morph in our lives and those around us. Yes Virginia, we must be open to the experience of not being in control and trusting in God’s will and way. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not speaking about the religious zealot, or being spiritual bigot, rather I am speaking of this example in the bible illustrated in this verse by Peter Acts 11:8-10 - “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again. Know this not just about Peter eating food, it about willingness to submit to be the true leader God called him out to be; live his destiny. He had to let go of those prefabricated perceptions that boxed him in, to see the true meaning of leading, having power….smiling..By doing so, his action showed us how to accurately embrace this verse, we far many times quote, but not willing to implement into our lives in the godly sense - 1 Cor. 2:9-10 - However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him “but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. None of this happens without submitting, not holding fast to this thing called ‘control’ because it base on our fear, not faith.
This is applicable to the non-secular world as well the secular world. See godly principles, percepts are universal, not limited to non-secular, or some things but all things…Learn to submit and see. No one is saying be a pushover Christ submitted and yet had the power to lead, but he had to submit first. Choose this day, and choose wisely…It’s important.
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