Learning To Submit.mpg

In Titus 2 we are told that the older women need to teach the younger women to be "subject to their husbands". This means that submitting does not come naturally but it's something we need to learn to do. For more about marriage go to www.womenlivingwell.org

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[OpenEye73]

Sounds like the perfect wife. However, would she still be if her husband lost his income and they were forced to live in a one bedroom apartment or something? Makes one wonder.

[Courtneylivingwell]

@OpenEye73 Yep she would :-) because this has nothing to do with how much money my husband makes but the God ordained role he holds in the home. For the first 3 years of our marriage, he was in college and I worked him through...he was still the head of our home. So you don't have to wonder...we lived in an apartment with me working and him going to school and indeed I submitted :)

[Courtneylivingwell]

@Courtneylivingwell I forgot to mention I am FAR from the perfect wife (as quoted above in your comment). I am pursuing what the Bible says with my whole heart. But the Bible says that I am a sinner...very flawed...that is what the cross says about all of us...so I humbly admit I am FAR from perfect. Just a sinner saved by grace striving to obey my Savior and Lord.

[Autimama]

Amen sister!

There is nothing wrong with a wife submitting to her husband, because you are doing it as unto the Lord!

I agree with Titus 2 and the book of Ephesians 100%.

[MrKittyyy2012]

Exactly. If women learns submit to her man, and the man treats his wife like a queen everything works out.

[SISKENNIE]

@Courtneylivingwell "LOVE" is the key! If the husband truly loves and is "in love" with his wife (as Jesus loves the church) then she will have his back.

[gracefulbeauty1985]

Loved the video and the wisdom. I am a young single woman who desires to be married someday. I see so many failed marriages, and I so want to do it God's way. Thanks again!! I will be subscribing.

[TheMrfreedomrequired]

Great words!

[Studwell76]

I'm loving this! Thanks for posting this! Submission doesn't mean that we're not equal, it is just God's order. I'm glad that another woman feels like I do.

[TruthandJustice101]

@tickledxoxpink Are you equal to your supervisor at work? Equal to your town Mayor? Governor? Are you equal to your own mother and father?

You accept "submission" all around you every day in society, but yet you assume it has no place in your immediate life? I would suggest that there is already submission in your marriage: you have submitted to your wife under the disguise of "secular equality". I'm sure the "equality" idea wasn't your idea, was it now?

[tickledxoxpink]

I would be unhappy with a life like that. I have seen too far often what dependency and submission to men (even the so-called Godly ones) has done to women, and it isn't pretty. I know you will argue that abuse and submission are two separate ideas but the line differentiating the two is blurred and is often crossed. Husbands and wives should respect, love and compromise with one another. In practical terms, compromise is an I give/you give situation, submission is an I give/you take situation.

[RainbowRockaKiki]

Most of the women around me always told me that if a man is doing what He has to do for me and our family then submitting to him shouldnt be a problem and i agree.

[ttsqas]

@OpenEye73 Sarah whom the Bible uses as an example of what Chrsitian women should emulate (1 Peter 3:1-6), submitted to Abraham even though he told here to pretend to be his sister out of fear.

God worked things out in the end in spite of Abraham's poor judgement. This is where both men and women often fail. We are to do what God's words says regardless of what our spouse does (this is what faith is).

[beward72]

People have a problem with the concept because society tells us in order for women to be equal they must stand alone. Not true. Women are in fact equal. But, submitting does not take her equality away. If a husband is a man of God he will put his wife's needs before his own. Submitting to him will not be a sacrifice, it will be an equal partnership were each spouse makes decisions not based on their own needs, but on the needs of the other.