What do you think of Ephesians 5:22? You know the verse: Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord?
I've heard some pretty wacky interpretations of that. Some take it to mean that husbands can beat their wives. Last week, in Wifey Wednesday, one commenter wrote about a man who believed that because the wife was to submit, she had to understand love in his love language, even if that wasn't her natural bent! Others take submission to mean that they have to submit in the bedroom, even if he asks something bizarre.
And then there's the more run of the mill interpretations, which go something like this: "When you can't make a decision, he gets the final say," as if God essentially means submission means he wins in the case of a tie.
I don't think any of those things are biblical. I think submission means something quite different. We probably don't all agree; I don't think I've ever met any two women who completely agree on the idea of submission. But I think it's good to think and pray about it, and to see if you're at peace with God about it. So have a listen to my podcast this week: What Submission Really Means. It's short, and I don't deal with everything. But maybe it's a leaping off point where we can start talking about it!
Every Tuesday I upload a new podcast, and this week this is it! When you go to the podcast, subscribe by clicking on one of the links to the right, so that you hear them every week! They're not overly long, but just nuggets to get us thinking.
So, on that vein, what do you think about submission?
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A couple years ago, I was first saved and my husband HATED my going to church... We were really struggling and there was very little holding us together. I felt God telling me that I needed to be submissive. I took it to a whole extreme and lost who I was as a wife, a mother, a woman, and a person in general. I had no idea who I was anymore, I just did everything in my power to do everything I could for my husband. Well, needless to say it didnt work at all. It made my husband walk on me EVEN MORE. I became more and more lost.
Now my husband and I are doing great, a miracle Im telling ya!!! Im slowly learning who I am again. And now Im learning what GOD means by being a submissive wife, not what I interpreted as submissive. Anyways, long explanation and not much progress!! haha...
I look forward to all your writings. Thanks for sharing!!!