On Marriage…
Jul 1st, 2009 by ljkim
Here’s the passage (click click) that most sane and progressive women don’t want read at their weddings… it’s the one that says “wives SUBMIT to your husbands as to the Lord.” We’re not really good with the idea of submission. Whenever we hear the word we can only think of bad examples, unhealthy roles, oppressive relationships, etc. And those are valid concerns, God sets us free, we should be wary of anything that’s going to put us under its thumb… But there is such a thing as healthy submission. And actually it’s at the heart of knowing what real love is… Because real love is about something MORE than yourself…the Bible’s word for what you do when you get that is “to submit.”
In a way, this is a key to the kind of life God wants for you. A life filled with people and things you’re willing to lay your life down for, serve and submit to, not out of a slavish fear, but freely from the depths of your heart. Because, far from being a life of slavery, the person who know what it means to submit is free from the most binding slavery of all, our slavery to self… Selfish pride, ambition, self-created drama. Real love takes us higher and further and closer to the heart of God. Okay that was schmaltzy, but if you can handle it – and you were one of the throngs of people out of town last Sunday – take a listen to the recording (On Marriage – mp3).
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