Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Satan's Perversion Of Submission



Many women refuse to be in submission to their husbands.  There is no way they would give their husbands sex as often as they wanted it.  "Obey him in everything,"  God commands. No way!  She would become a doormat then.

When you lovingly serve someone else and put their needs above your own, you are living in obedience to God and wiping His feet with your life.  There is nothing about being a doormat in this.  Satan just wanted to pervert the word submission so women would have a good excuse not to be a doormat, oopss, I mean a submissive wife.
The picture 0f a woman being a doormat is not suggested anywhere in Scripture. The picture is that of LOVING submission which WINS OVER the man’s heart.  The Bible gives this promise ~
Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 
I Peter 3:1,2
This is how a husband knows that his wife is his crown {Proverbs 12:4}. She is worth far more than rubies {Proverbs 31:10}. This isn’t slavish submission nor being a doormat, this is loving submission done out of reverence for the Lord and the natural order of His creation, and out of love for her husband.

Many women fear their husbands will abuse them if they begin being submissive and obey them.  I have found the opposite to be true.  Husbands start truly loving and adoring their wives and become the leaders God has called them to become.

Stop listening to the lies of society.  They don't work.  They are opposite of God's plan for us.  Submission protects us.  God knew that.  He knows everything and His ways are good.

Wise-Woman-Builds

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At times, I too have my fears in this area. Today I was reminded of my fears and reminded myself I trust God even if I don't trust my husbands motives at times. I reminded myself God causes all things to work together for my good. Then I hunched my shoulders in apprehension and obeyed my husband.

Blessings~
Alethea
Hi Alethea,

Lori and I were just talking on our walk about how submission is not just obedience but attitude, for it is the attitude of serving and following that wins over your man, much more than obedience. God feels the same way about us as He speaks lots about trust and faith.

Continue to trust God, and in turn your man, with enthusiasm and without hunched shoulders, Remember that the journey of learning together is more important than getting this one thing right. Bravo on taking the risk that God may actually be right about this marriage stuff
Stopping by from Wise Woman Link Up. Thank you for your post, I am a new Christian and am excited by the promise of submission to my husband, but when I tell some people they cringe, the culture is speaking to loud, and God needs to be heard again. I am proud to be developing in submission and I in no way feel like a doormat I feel strong. Have a blessed day. Tara (The Proverbs 31 Sanctuary)
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Most women cringe. Even those who have been walking with Jesus their whole lives. It is our nature to want to control and be insubordinate instead of in submission but it is in submitting and obeying our husband that we find God's blessings. God will not be mocked...whatever a man sows, that He will also reap. You are one wise woman, Tara, and you just continue learning to submit to your husband and your lives will just get better and better!
Recently, I was counseled to submit to my husband in an area I had dragged my feet on for years. I was trying to keep a relationship going with my dad that hadn't been reciprocated for over a decade. My husband thought I should cut my dad off from my life, but I thought since he was MY dad I had the right to handle the situation inthe way I saw fit. He's my DAD after all, right? Wrong! I was counseled to let my dad go in the best interest of my marriage. I had been stubborn and thought that since I believed my husband's motives to be wrong to ask me to do such a thing, I didn't have to submit. I thought God would understand, and actually felt God would honor my decision since it was my dad and all. I now see that I should have submitted to my husband in the beginning, even IF his motives weren't pure. The decision to carry on with life as if my dad is dead is not easy, but I know it has to be this way for the sake of our marriage and God will honor my decision.
I believe most women should be counseled to remain single. Marriage is for the benefit of the man entirely. Women are counseled how to help the man, how to be what he needs, how to make him feel important, valued, why you should do what he wants even if it is selfish and uncaring, etc. Wonderful arrangement for the man, not so for the woman. When women marry they no longer count other than how to help your man and obey him. Most women don't understand that when you are dating a young man you are his equal until you marry him. When dating he will woo you and convince you of his love and devotion to you. After you marry him everything becomes about him and what he needs and wants. You as a wife are to told to give him whatever he needs and wants as long as he is not asking you violate a direct command from God. You are told he may be selfish, inconsiderate, self-centered, etc. but submit anyway. What women aren't taught is that when you marry you take on the curse of Genesis. In essence by agreeing to marry this man, you agree to live a cursed life. Again, unmarried women do not live a life cursed with the rule of a husband. Biblically sanctioned degradation. If you want to be right with God, but don't desire degradation don't get married. The curse of husband rule does not apply to single women.

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