Finding Strength in Submission

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22). "Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the Word, they also may without the Word be won by the conversation of the wives" ( 1st Peter3:1) What a way to start out today's devotion! Yes, this is God's word and responsibilities for wives that want to be Godly, however many times when the word submission is heard it creates a feeling that is less than desireable in us. Understanding this role will help with this feeling of being overrun by someone or being weak. This is not at all what God means by this. God is a God of order, and the Apostle Paul tells us this in 1st Timothy 2: 9-13, and in 1 Cor. 11: 8-12. In these verses, we see that God made the man first, then the woman. So the Order was God, man, then woman. The headship of man is God, and the headship of woman is man according to God's divine order. Man is called with the responsibility to Love his wife and be the one that leads her, and his family in the ways of God, in which he will give an account to God of how he did this. The wife is to submit to this authority, realizing that He must be submissive to God's authority. One qualifier though is this. Submission is not required if asked to participate in ungodly activities, or in an abusive relationship. When participating in God's divine order, there will always be blessing.