Submission Puts Women in Bondage?
We live in a wicked and depraved culture. Our culture doesn’t want to have anything to do with God nor His ways. Many take a word such as submission and pervert it. They say that submission puts women in bondage and causes them to be abused. They don’t understand that submission is a willing act by a godly wife to place herself under the leadership of her husband. It’s not a twisted and perverted type of bondage that the husband puts the wife in. This is why God commands wives to submit to their husbands.
It’s our choice, women. Are you going to willingly and joyfully submit to your husband and allow him to be the head over you as God designed or are you going to be rebellious and take control instead? There will always be a leader in the marriage and most marriages today are being led by the woman. Women like control and they use their emotions, feelings, and actions to control their husbands instead of the truth of God’s Word.
Nothing should control our lives except for the Word of God. If you are angry with your husband, remind yourself that anger does not accomplish the righteous life that God desires. If you are being a nag to him, remind yourself that your husband would rather live on the roof top than to hear you nag. If you complain to him, remember that God hates complaining because it proves you don’t trust in His provision. Take every single thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
When women tell you that husbands and wives are to submit to one another, meaning husbands are to submit to them, ask them if they are holding up their end of the verse and submitting to their husbands since they will all be only accountable to the Lord for their actions. When we submit to our husband, we are submitting to Christ. Christ values our submission. It is beautiful in His sight and this is what He wants us to adorn ourselves with (1 Peter 3:5). A woman who joyfully and lovingly submits to her husband is more beautiful to the Lord than the most beautiful looking woman on the face of this earth; for God looks at the heart, not the outward appearance (1 Samuel 16:7).
“Submission is more than specific acts you do; it is an attitude of the will that willingly bends, seeking ways to obey in everything.” – Dorothy Patterson
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Ephesians 5:22-24
5 thoughts on “Submission Puts Women in Bondage?”
Godly submission is freedom, not bondage. Rather, bondage is to accept the burden that feminism places on a woman to be something other than who she has been created to be by a loving and wise God.
I have been regularly reading your blog for a few years now and have been greatly encouraged to follow the Lord’s pattern for women, so please excuse the fact that my first comment is a negative one. The picture you used for today’s blog was disturbing to me since I have sons (and a husband, of course) who are often in the room when I read your blog. I would be very uncomfortable to have them see such a photo. I realize that you write to women, however, men often comment on your posts, so perhaps you could reconsider using such pictures. Thank you for your firm stand on God’s standards for women and your unfailing efforts to open the eyes of those deceived by the world’s philosophy in regard to our role.
Great point and so true, Heidi. Thank you!
I had no clue that the picture I had used was so provocative, Wendy, until you pointed it out. I am SO sorry! For some reason, I thought it was an innocent picture and didn’t see if for what it was and it was disturbing. Please forgive me. I quickly changed it.
Thank you! Have a blessed day!