![]() ![]() If a team needs leaders and followers, if a business needs leaders and followers, then so does a family. The team is lost without a captain to pull it all together, but a captain would be nothing without his players. Women were created by God to be very adaptable and flexible. The word “submit” or “submission” means: to subordinate yourself to put under to be under obedience to give over or yield to the power or authority of another to defer to another’s judgment, opinion, decision. Men were created by God to be focused, to make decisions easily and to be natural leaders. 24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands. 23 For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of body. 22 Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as to the Lord. God also put our welfare above His own when He gave up his only begotten Son on our behalf!īe subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Raising a successful, happy family requires a great deal of unselfishness and sacrifice on the part of the parents. Marriage is not 50-50, it is 100-100! When we each put our spouse first, then we can’t help but have a successful marriage. A godly marriage involves mutual submission, submitting ourselves to the lordship of Jesus Christ, and subordinating our own personal desires for the good of the ones we love. We must measure ourselves against God’s standards, and work to make sure that our life and relationships line up with His word. Each category has mutual responsibilities – to love and to submit to encourage and to obey to work hard and to be fair. In this passage in Colossians, mentioned above, and the next few verses after that, Paul gives the rules for three sets of household relationships – a) husbands and wives b) parents and their children and c) masters and slaves, or servants. Therefore, if a wife will honor God in her own life and respect His word, she will be content to allow, support, and encourage her husband to be the head of the family that God intended him to be. ![]() God made us and He says that this responsibility belongs to the husband. As the saying goes, “Anything with no head is a monster and anything with two heads is a freak!” In order to have order in the family, as in anything else, there needs to be one head. Just as the human body has one head, so also the Body of Christ has one leader, Jesus Christ, and the family has one leader, the husband and father. They are called and ordained by God, to be the head of, and the leader in, their homes. Not mere selfish human love, but unselfishly and unconditionally. Husbands are instructed to love their wives with the agape love of God. It’s not a competition to see who’s smarter or better, but it is a team effort toward the same end result. Husbands and wives have a specific role and specific function in the home, two working together as one, to accomplish the same goal – a blessed and godly family. You are a representative of the Lord Jesus Christ and you represent Him everywhere you go and in everything you do! Even and especially in your home! The “do everything in His Name” rule applies to husbands and to wives in the context of their marriage and family as much as it does to outside of the home. Colossians 3:17-19 AMPĭoing “everything in the name of the Lord Jesus” means bringing honor to Him in every aspect and activity of your daily life. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh or bitter or resentful toward them. 18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is right and fitting and your proper duty in the Lord. So let’s hope that moms were spoilt properly for Mother’s Day last week – as it certainly sounds like they deserve it.And whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him. Other lifesavers were wine, babysitters or family help, Netflix, wet wipes, drive-through meals, iPads, toys, and healthy snacks. ![]() Moms need all the help they can get, and when asked what they couldn’t live with out, they said a constant supply of coffee, the ability to nap, and being able to put on an effective angry voice. The survey also revealed that the average mom gets just one hour and seven minutes of time to herself every day – so little more than a lunch hour.Ĭasey Lewis, health and nutrition lead at Welch’s, told Yahoo “The results of the survey highlight just how demanding the role of mom can be and the non-stop barrage of tasks it consists of.” In total, that makes a mother’s working week a whopping 98 hours of work, or two and a half times more than the average job. Not many jobs require a 14-hour working day, and most moms have to do this every day of the week. Once she has finished all the tasks, whether they are career related or parenting, she ends her work at 8:31pm. ![]()
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