Godly Permission for Submission

When we submit to each other as husband and wife, we are giving expression to the purity of God's love. Purity and trust are vital components to a godly marriage. Mistrust derives from impure thoughts that many times stemmed from acts of disloyalty and/or betrayal. God's love enables us to forgive and be forgiven. A whole heart (spirit) will not easily drift apart from the road of righteousness and truth. Stay on track by keeping back the subtle thoughts that come to distract you from godly submission. Don't bow to thoughts that contradict God's Word i.e. I am not his/her slave, If I submit then I will appear weak or like a wimp and my friends and family will laugh at me, I'm not doing what my spouse says I have a mind of my own, I'm not a puppet, etc.

Trust God that if He is requiring you as a godly man/woman to submit to your spouse than He knows what He is doing. God is wiser than we are, just obey Him and then reap the success of His wisdom.

Ephesians 5:21-31

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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.

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. 

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