Submission
Colossians 3:18 tells wives to submit to their own husband as is fitting to the Lord.
I have heard this verse before and I have watched people do this time and time again. I have wondered way too many times, "How can women just submit?" I see Godly women do it all the time.
It goes against what I was brought up believeing. Believeing that women should never ever submit to their husbands. That the woman, generally, was the head of the household. That's how I saw it growing up. But then I see my sister's mother and father in law. I see how her mother in law submits to her husband. How the father in law is the head of the household. I also see my friend "M" submit to her husband.
They both model their lives from the bible. Their lives are very similar to each others in respect to how they're stay at home mothers and wives. They don't take for granted what their husbands do. They obviously respect their husbands and their husbands respect them.
I want to be able to model my marriage after theirs so very badly!! But like I said, it goes against what I was raised to believe. My mother disagrees with how they submit to their husbands. How they ask "permission" to do certain things. They are asking because they have respect for their husbands.
Respect is something that, in my mind, a lot of marriages lack. I say that because I see couples bash each other and talk behind the others backs. I have enough respect to know that I should ask anyways. I respect my husband and he respects me. I want to model my marriage based off of his parents marriage.
I see the Duggar's. I see how they model their lives around the bible and how the bible says we should live. It makes me mad, but that's because I want a very similar life to theirs. Not with 19 children. But how Mr and Mrs Duggar live their marriage. They pray together. They encourage each other, as well as their children. I want the same kind of relationship that they have with God.
It's just so difficult for me because of how I was raised. I don't believe in divorce at all. It is part of the root of all evil. At least in my mind it is. I know what I want for my marriage. I see people live it all the time. I just hope that I can be a lot like them.
I have heard this verse before and I have watched people do this time and time again. I have wondered way too many times, "How can women just submit?" I see Godly women do it all the time.
It goes against what I was brought up believeing. Believeing that women should never ever submit to their husbands. That the woman, generally, was the head of the household. That's how I saw it growing up. But then I see my sister's mother and father in law. I see how her mother in law submits to her husband. How the father in law is the head of the household. I also see my friend "M" submit to her husband.
They both model their lives from the bible. Their lives are very similar to each others in respect to how they're stay at home mothers and wives. They don't take for granted what their husbands do. They obviously respect their husbands and their husbands respect them.
I want to be able to model my marriage after theirs so very badly!! But like I said, it goes against what I was raised to believe. My mother disagrees with how they submit to their husbands. How they ask "permission" to do certain things. They are asking because they have respect for their husbands.
Respect is something that, in my mind, a lot of marriages lack. I say that because I see couples bash each other and talk behind the others backs. I have enough respect to know that I should ask anyways. I respect my husband and he respects me. I want to model my marriage based off of his parents marriage.
I see the Duggar's. I see how they model their lives around the bible and how the bible says we should live. It makes me mad, but that's because I want a very similar life to theirs. Not with 19 children. But how Mr and Mrs Duggar live their marriage. They pray together. They encourage each other, as well as their children. I want the same kind of relationship that they have with God.
It's just so difficult for me because of how I was raised. I don't believe in divorce at all. It is part of the root of all evil. At least in my mind it is. I know what I want for my marriage. I see people live it all the time. I just hope that I can be a lot like them.
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