Before my wife and I entered into the covenant of marriage, we researched the Bible for God’s instruction for what our marriage relationship should look like. We did not find a single passage instructing her to “obey” me. The only referrence to “obey” other than for all of us to obey God, was for children to “obey” their parents and for slaves to “obey” their master.

Since the original post was for discussion purposes and to get some thoughts going, I thought I would mention this since I view the difference between “obey” and submit” to be significant, I should add, so does my wife.

In Him,
Dan

Love your blog. Recommendation: Ted Dekker, Ring Trilogy; 3 books entitled Black, Red & White. You will LOVE them.

Cheers
In Him
russ smith

I tried to start a blog. Twice. I just don’t have a lot of time! Bloggers are always talking about how much time it takes to keep up and I can’t imagine being able to. I don’t know how you all do it!

I’m a pregnant, nursing, mother of five girls 10 and under. I make their clothes and bake our bread. I homeschool the oldest three. And, the most time consuming job, nurture their hearts and train to think from a Biblical perspective and obey God. To do my best as a Christian homemaker it seemed necessary to spare the world the bulk of my opinions, at least for this season of my life!

The less I say, the more insightful I sound. Even a fool seems wise when he is silent!

I’m encouraging blog-less readers to use the comment section to “blog” about it. He’ll be judging bloggers only, of course, but I wanted commenters to feel part of the Bible challenge.

Readers are welcome to join in whether they have a blog or not.

I have to admit that reading over those verses humbled me as I considered the times recently I have resented the service required of my by my role as wife and mom. I see how impatient and proud I have been at heart. Hardly Christlike in humility and gentleness! May the Lord bless you as well who chose to study those words of His.

To try and paint a picture per se is beyond my non-artist capabilities.

However, when I think about the orderliness in the greater scheme of things, I’m drawn to a photo spread that I saw back in ‘92 by Geo (German magazine like National Geography).

This spread was a sequence that started with the cosmos at extreme zoom, backed off to our solar system, then a satelite’s view of earth and zooming in on NYC, man on the street and ended up with a black-field extreme magnification of the (IIRC) atomic structure of the human cell which looked almost identical to the 1st picture. The picture I came away with was God’s nature coming full circle.

Time permitting, I may work on participate, however it doesn’t look likely.

I’m in

Christ demonstrates his leadership and sovereignity through his ultimate sacrifice and service to us. Men should model this example of leadership through service to their submitting wife.

We should demonstrate our submission to Christ’s sovereignity through the service and submission in and out of leadership positions to each other.

Leadership requires humility, submission requires humility, and we should all humbly submit to one anothers needs modeling Christ who ‘though it not robbery to be equal to God…yet made himself a little lower than the angels’.