SUBMISSION

“For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments:
and His commandments are not grievous.”
1 John 5:3

Submission is a term that has been grievously distorted
because there are men who have used the word as a weapon to club their wives
rather than as a hammer to build their homes.
When God tells the wife to submit to her husband,
He also tells the husband to love his wife (Ephesians 5:22-25).
When God tells children to obey their parents,
He also instructs the fathers to “provoke not your children to wrath:
but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).
When God tells you to submit to Him, it is for your good (James 4:7).
Jesus is the head of the church, and He leads by love.
The same should be true in the home.

Meditate on the word submission and think about the differences
in how the world interprets this word compared to what the scrpitures mean.