Scripture Time

Ephesians 5:22-33

22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."[c] 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

I've struggled with submission for a long time. Not in the way of wanting to not submit to Mark, but in understanding what it really means. I've been told it's really just a respect issue. Well to what degree do we take that? You hear some people say that she had to check w/ her husband before she would buy that little trinket. It was only $5, that's just crazy. You hear others who have their own money in their account and the husband doesn't touch it and doesn't know where it goes. So should we just be somewhere in the middle? Is it just an issue of respecting your husband, holding him in the highest esteem? I think verse 33 is a good one, a gentle reminder to the husbands. Some other good verses on this are in 1st Corinthians . If the husband is treating the wife the way he should be, generally the wife is going to bend over backwards to do whatever she can for the husband. It's a give and take thing. If you guys have any helpful advice on submission I could use it!

Father~ Thank you for the marriage relationship. Thank you for the companionship and the love you can share. Thank you for sending your son to be the perfect example. We should be modeling our relationships after him. Help me as always to be more like him. In your name Amen.