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FAMILY DUTIES- SUBMISSION

Text : Colossians 3:18

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord.

In Colossians chapter three, verses eighteen to twenty five, the word of God spelt out what each member of the family should do in order to maintain orderliness in the home.

The very first person that was addressed is the wife. I know there's much talk about gender equality in our world today, but *as children of God, we are not to follow the world's system or ideologies but to doggedly follow His word.

At times, we hear women say things like, I don't have problem with submission in as much as my husband gives his love.

Well, that's one corner the devil is hiding in destroying homes. God never says wives should submit to their husbands if the husband shows her love and vice versa. 

The word of God simply says, wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord.

To the preachers of gender equality, it is inappropriate for a woman to put herself under the subjection of her husband. But God says this is appropriate to those who belong to the Lord. 

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.Ephesians 5:24.

Before you say "I do" to that man, be sure that you are willing and ready to submit to him.

If you are a woman, pray for grace to do that which is appropriate in the sight of God, and if you are a man pray to God on behalf of all the women around you that grace will be poured on them to be submissive to their husbands.

It takes grace to truly submit, yet it is only in submission that a wife finds covering and promotion. 


Bible reading: Colossians 3:18-25.



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