Dearly Beloved Children Wives

Dearly Beloved Children

Wives

I hope no one gets upset with me;

I read something that was not addressed to me,

I read Ephesians 5:22.

This verse is addressed to wives.

So the word to wives (not to husbands) is

“wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord”.

This verse does not negate verse 21

 that tells us to “submit to one another.”

I like women…

my grandmothers, mother, sisters,

wife, daughters, and all my 4 grand children

are women and my love for them is great.

I can’t image what my life would be like

without their contribution.

Somebody once said

when God gave Eve to Adam,

Adam said, “WOW MAN!”

Which later the translation dropped the second “W”

and came up with woman.

I personally think they should

have never dropped the “W”.

The Church is the glory of Christ.

When Jesus comes back,

there is only one thing He wants

and that is the Church.

God compares His Church,

that is second to none

not even the angels,

to a wife.

God’s intention is not to make a woman

a second class person nor is

it to make men or husbands

the highest life form.

Although Paul is writing about the family,

the greater message is

Christ and the Church.

Paul wants the family

to see the beautiful model

of Christ and the Church.

It is from that model

of the glorious church

without spot or wrinkle,

we can learn to

become better families.

Submitting to Jesus becomes

 our desire as we discover

how much He loves us!

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 5:21-33 NIV

21 Submit to one another

out of reverence for Christ.

For women only

22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

23 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.

24 Now as the church submits to Christ,

so also wives should submit

to their husbands in everything.

For men only

25 Husbands, love your wives,

just as Christ loved the church

and gave himself up for her

26 to make her holy, cleansing her

by the washing with water through the word,

27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church,

without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish,

but holy and blameless.

28 In this same way,

husbands ought to love

their wives as their own bodies.

He who loves his wife loves himself.

29 After all, no one ever hated his own body,

but he feeds and cares for it,

just as Christ does the church—

30 for 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."  

32 This is a profound mystery

— but I am talking about

Christ and the church.

33 However, each one of you also

must love his wife as he loves himself,

and the wife must respect her husband.