In the previous post I analysed the verse of Eph 5:22. Today I want to take it even further and ask myself and you…
If I got a phone call this morning from Jesus informing me that He will be visiting in person and flesh for dinner tonight. To what extend will my preparations for this dinner go tonight? With how much respect and love will I welcome and treat Jesus?
I can just imagine that I will serve the best portion of food to Him, I will serve Him first. The house would be neat and the children would be bathed and settled down. Maybe I would even put on some relaxing gospel music for the perfect relaxed atmosphere. The list can go on and on. There would be so much adoration in me, I can even see myself having the urge to kneel before Him and wash His feet.
But when women today hear they must treat their husbands in a certain way as they would treat the Lord, they have a few dozen reasons why they shouldn’t.
Don’t get me wrong certainly when Jesus would really come and visit you, you would treat Him a lot more special than you would your husband because your husband is not God. But the point I want to make is that we should not see our service as a wife as something we do only because the bible instruct us to or because your good husband deserves it. But because we love, respect and trust in Jesus Christ. Being an eph5 wife is being an obedient princess and daughter of God and He will bless you and keep you for doing that. By living like this as a bonus the bible even tells us that if we do live our lives in such a way that we can turn our husbands to Jesus if they are not a man of God yet. Never underestimate the influence of a women’s gentle, submissive and loving spirit;) (1Peter3:1-4) God made us like this for a reason. Esther is a great example. I am not saying that women can’t be powerful leaders. I believe the women God chooses to put in powerful positions receive a certain anointing and gift to equip them to do it. But I am talking about a women’s role as a wife to her husband. God had a certain order for marriage regardless of our positions outside our homes.
So I leave you with this thought what can you do and change in your way of thinking to treat your husband better than you are at the moment? There are always room for improvement, maybe the areas that you struggle with may be easier to overcome when you think about how you would do it for Jesus when you are confronted with it next time. Maybe you need to work on sarcasm or on your tone of voice when you are irritated after a long day. Whatever it may be, may you find it easier after meditating on this thought and on this verse. Eph5:22.
P.S
I am not in any way trying to justify my CDD-marriage with the bible. To be honest I haven’t found scripture that instruct husbands to discipline their wives in such a way. But I also haven’t found scripture that warns us not to use this method. So for me it is a choice a couple make. It works for us but it doesn’t mean any other “non-cdd-marriage” can’t work out just as well. CDD is a choice not deliberately instructed by the Bible but also not wrong to do.