"Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…" (Ephesians 5:21, 22, 25)
Mutual submission makes a marriage heavenly. While people often cringe and recoil at this Biblical teaching, God’s way really is the best way.
Jesus modeled submission for us; submission to His Heavenly Father and to His earthly parents, Mary and Joseph:
“Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” (Luke 2:51-52)
Submission doesn’t mean being someone’s doormat, it means yielding the right of way in order to avoid a collision. Submission means putting the other person’s needs and desires ahead of your own. When you have two people doing that for each other in the context of marriage…well, it just doesn’t get any better than that!
Submission is not confined to marriage. In any relationship; parent and child, co-workers, neighbors--try putting the needs and desires of the other person ahead of your own. God will bless.
~ Father, teach me to lead by serving; by putting the needs and desires of others ahead of my own. Amen.
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