Submission is a good or bad thing?
The feminist movement made the women to feel shy for what, in biblical times, was considered honor. For instance, in the past, to have children was a blessing (see, for instance, how mourned Hannah in the Creator’s presence only for the privilege of becoming mother (1Sam 1:9-11) and how Elisabeth felt when she conceived John, the Baptist (Luke 1:25)). Today, many people consider maternity a disease. It suffices to see the great quantity of women who make use of contraceptive and huge quantity of abortions carried out in the world.
But the worst thing is the disdain of the feminists for the gift of submission. When the Holy Scripture says that wife ought to be acquiescent to her husband, this sounds as a crime, a heinous teaching proclaimed by the religious institutions.
Nonetheless, submission is one of the great gifts of the Creator to the women. In Song 8:5 we can see the outcome of submission: Shulamite found peace (Song 8:10) resting in the Creator leaned in her husband (such as Sarah, through submission to Abraham, was able to not fear anything that was frightening – 1Peter 3:6).
For you understanding what is submission, imagine you doing a long journey by car through a road fraught of beautiful and delightful landscapes. The passenger can rest enjoying each detail of the landscape (sky, birds, animals, vegetation) while eat and drink something scrumptious. If the passenger gets tired, he can sleep. If the car gets a flat tire, the responsibility of changing the tire is of the driver. If there's a police operation, it's the driver who needs to be accountable answering the police questions. It is the driver who needs to care about the crazy and bad drivers, as well as swerve from the hindrances in the road.
In short: the only thing that the passenger needs to do is enjoy the trip, especially if road is in perfect state and the car is luxurious. All the predicaments are to be sorted out by the driver, who, in addition, can’t enjoy deeply the landscape.
The only thing that can preclude this travel to be a paradisiac moment is the driver.
Well, in the kingdom of the Creator, the car symbolizes Jesus (we need to be inside Him) and the road, the Holy Scripture. Therefore, if the woman stays in Jesus obeying His commandments, the only thing that can hamper her to live a quiet, peaceful and pleasant travel during her peregrination along this world is the person that she will choose to drive her until Jesus call her to account for her actions.
If the single woman bides with patience in Jesus (Ps 40:1) until He leads her toward the future husband that He prepared for her, certainly she will be extremely relish submitting to his love without any uneasiness.
So, have a good day going over this message and, to the women I say:
1 – If you are single, pray so that Jesus can bring to you someone much wiser than you and that love you as Jesus loved him and you. So, you will be able to enjoy the privilege which comes with the submission.
2 – If you are married and your husband isn’t savvy, pray to Jesus so that the wisdom in his life outdoes yours. If your faith is pure, Jesus will answer your prayer:
• Jas 1:5-7 -> “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;”.
Can you be sure: it is better your husband to be full of Jesus’ wisdom and you give in on it than belittle the gift of submission and rebel against the Creator’s plan trying to take over the control of your home. In the end, your home will be the outset of the hell (which will become your eternal home for rejecting Jesus’ plan).
Furthermore, considering that the Creator’s plans can’t be thwarted (Job 42:2; Isa 43:13), as the Creator established the husband as head of the home, it is his ideas and plans which will prevail.
Finally, although is extremely important and needful that the woman increases in faith, glory, grace and wisdom (Prov 14:1), she should seek out in Christ that her husband can always increase even more in all of it. So, she won’t find any problem with the submission and, thus, she will be a great woman of the Creator, wife and mother (exactly what she really needs to be).
So, to you woman, that this day can show to you the importance of being woman and of not letting anybody make you forget that you are special exactly because you are who you are. You don’t need to change to please someone (unless the Holy Spirit desire to work in you His cleanness for salvation of yours, of your family and of people close to you – Phil 2:12,13; Titus 3:4-6).
The feminist movement made the women to feel shy for what, in biblical times, was considered honor. For instance, in the past, to have children was a blessing (see, for instance, how mourned Hannah in the Creator’s presence only for the privilege of becoming mother (1Sam 1:9-11) and how Elisabeth felt when she conceived John, the Baptist (Luke 1:25)). Today, many people consider maternity a disease. It suffices to see the great quantity of women who make use of contraceptive and huge quantity of abortions carried out in the world.
But the worst thing is the disdain of the feminists for the gift of submission. When the Holy Scripture says that wife ought to be acquiescent to her husband, this sounds as a crime, a heinous teaching proclaimed by the religious institutions.
Nonetheless, submission is one of the great gifts of the Creator to the women. In Song 8:5 we can see the outcome of submission: Shulamite found peace (Song 8:10) resting in the Creator leaned in her husband (such as Sarah, through submission to Abraham, was able to not fear anything that was frightening – 1Peter 3:6).
For you understanding what is submission, imagine you doing a long journey by car through a road fraught of beautiful and delightful landscapes. The passenger can rest enjoying each detail of the landscape (sky, birds, animals, vegetation) while eat and drink something scrumptious. If the passenger gets tired, he can sleep. If the car gets a flat tire, the responsibility of changing the tire is of the driver. If there's a police operation, it's the driver who needs to be accountable answering the police questions. It is the driver who needs to care about the crazy and bad drivers, as well as swerve from the hindrances in the road.
In short: the only thing that the passenger needs to do is enjoy the trip, especially if road is in perfect state and the car is luxurious. All the predicaments are to be sorted out by the driver, who, in addition, can’t enjoy deeply the landscape.
The only thing that can preclude this travel to be a paradisiac moment is the driver.
Well, in the kingdom of the Creator, the car symbolizes Jesus (we need to be inside Him) and the road, the Holy Scripture. Therefore, if the woman stays in Jesus obeying His commandments, the only thing that can hamper her to live a quiet, peaceful and pleasant travel during her peregrination along this world is the person that she will choose to drive her until Jesus call her to account for her actions.
If the single woman bides with patience in Jesus (Ps 40:1) until He leads her toward the future husband that He prepared for her, certainly she will be extremely relish submitting to his love without any uneasiness.
So, have a good day going over this message and, to the women I say:
1 – If you are single, pray so that Jesus can bring to you someone much wiser than you and that love you as Jesus loved him and you. So, you will be able to enjoy the privilege which comes with the submission.
2 – If you are married and your husband isn’t savvy, pray to Jesus so that the wisdom in his life outdoes yours. If your faith is pure, Jesus will answer your prayer:
• Jas 1:5-7 -> “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;”.
Can you be sure: it is better your husband to be full of Jesus’ wisdom and you give in on it than belittle the gift of submission and rebel against the Creator’s plan trying to take over the control of your home. In the end, your home will be the outset of the hell (which will become your eternal home for rejecting Jesus’ plan).
Furthermore, considering that the Creator’s plans can’t be thwarted (Job 42:2; Isa 43:13), as the Creator established the husband as head of the home, it is his ideas and plans which will prevail.
Finally, although is extremely important and needful that the woman increases in faith, glory, grace and wisdom (Prov 14:1), she should seek out in Christ that her husband can always increase even more in all of it. So, she won’t find any problem with the submission and, thus, she will be a great woman of the Creator, wife and mother (exactly what she really needs to be).
So, to you woman, that this day can show to you the importance of being woman and of not letting anybody make you forget that you are special exactly because you are who you are. You don’t need to change to please someone (unless the Holy Spirit desire to work in you His cleanness for salvation of yours, of your family and of people close to you – Phil 2:12,13; Titus 3:4-6).