1 Peter 3:5-6
For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
Wisdom with our words.
As women of God, we are called to be wise, to be submissive to our husbands....even with our words. Our words that we use towards our husbands, our words that we use describing our husbands to our children, our families, our friends......our own hearts.
It is easy in this world....to fall into being martyrs...to feel sorry for ourselves and to be submissive outwardly but use our friends as people who can commiserate with us regarding our "lot" in life. Maybe he isn't romantic enough, maybe he isn't as handsome as he once was.....maybe he doesn't listen, doesn't care, doesn't notice and the list goes on and on.....
Or maybe on the outside we pretend that all is perfect, but behind closed doors we meet him with icy stares, cold words and mean hearts...... Thinking what? That this will make it even? God calls us to be submissive.....completely.
Acts of obedience. Period. Different from the world. The world will tell us the grass is greener on the other side.....yet, the same dirt is under the grass on the other side. The deeper we go in any relationship, we will find that everyone....everyone has flaws.
Early on in our marriage, I hate to say that my first response was to leave...... I would get angry and instead of talking it out I would have the desire to walk.... Thankfully, God gave me a husband who had lives a childhood that saw leaving as the solution....and when he married me, he married for life.
My advice to all couples who are planning to get married is that it is hard work.... There will be days when you won't want to love the person beside you but with God's provision.....you will. You will choose to be obedient if anything to the vows you made before God. Satan wants nothing better than to destroy what God has put together......we have the power not to let him...... I know, not politically correct these days..... But, but, but..we believe all or none of it.
Now, I am still very much a work in progress..... I couldn't call my Travis "Master" without sounding extremely sarcastic and self-serving..but I try in my actions daily to treat him with reverence..... for he, too, is a child of God.
23 years later........I love him more..... I look back and see the storms we weathered and the faithfulness of our Father.
For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
Wisdom with our words.
As women of God, we are called to be wise, to be submissive to our husbands....even with our words. Our words that we use towards our husbands, our words that we use describing our husbands to our children, our families, our friends......our own hearts.
It is easy in this world....to fall into being martyrs...to feel sorry for ourselves and to be submissive outwardly but use our friends as people who can commiserate with us regarding our "lot" in life. Maybe he isn't romantic enough, maybe he isn't as handsome as he once was.....maybe he doesn't listen, doesn't care, doesn't notice and the list goes on and on.....
Or maybe on the outside we pretend that all is perfect, but behind closed doors we meet him with icy stares, cold words and mean hearts...... Thinking what? That this will make it even? God calls us to be submissive.....completely.
Acts of obedience. Period. Different from the world. The world will tell us the grass is greener on the other side.....yet, the same dirt is under the grass on the other side. The deeper we go in any relationship, we will find that everyone....everyone has flaws.
Early on in our marriage, I hate to say that my first response was to leave...... I would get angry and instead of talking it out I would have the desire to walk.... Thankfully, God gave me a husband who had lives a childhood that saw leaving as the solution....and when he married me, he married for life.
My advice to all couples who are planning to get married is that it is hard work.... There will be days when you won't want to love the person beside you but with God's provision.....you will. You will choose to be obedient if anything to the vows you made before God. Satan wants nothing better than to destroy what God has put together......we have the power not to let him...... I know, not politically correct these days..... But, but, but..we believe all or none of it.
Now, I am still very much a work in progress..... I couldn't call my Travis "Master" without sounding extremely sarcastic and self-serving..but I try in my actions daily to treat him with reverence..... for he, too, is a child of God.
23 years later........I love him more..... I look back and see the storms we weathered and the faithfulness of our Father.
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