If God ever blesses me with a husband and family, I want him to be a strong leader. I want him to lead our household just as God leads the church. I know its sexist for me to say that the man is the head of the house and the wife has to submit to him... But its the truth.
Ephesians 5:22- 24 says, "Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do 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. "
If you believe the Bible is true then you also have to believe that as women we are called to submit to our husbands. This doesn't mean that we are week and only good for cooking, cleaning, and making babies, that's not true at all. Just read Proverbs 31 we have a very important job.
Just as women are called to submit to their husbands, men are called to be good, loving Godly leaders of the home.
Ephesians 5: 25-33 says "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 their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband."
This was just something I have been thinking about. What do you think?
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