Text: Ephesians 5:21-23
Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord
For husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the Church; and Christ is Himself the Saviour of the church, his body.
A Christian home is supposed to be the sweetest place on earth, a love nest where godly children are raised. It is a place where family love radiates as father and mother and children care for one another, pray and fellowship together and share life's experiences together.
But in many a home, this ideal family set-up is not fully realised. Soon, the walls of marriage being to crack! Love begins to wane, giving to communication gap; quarrels, murmuring and suspicion become frequent while caring for one another diminishes. When these happen, the peace of God, joy and happiness flee, fellowship with God and victorious Christian living become difficult and, demonic oppression afflict the family.
Absence of Christ from the home is the cause of the motives and actions of marriage partners are neither controlled nor influenced by the Holy Spirit nor are utterances regulated by the word of God.
What do we do at such a time? The Lordship of Christ over the family must be restored. Peter and the other fishermen (disciples) employed all their boat-peddling experience when a great tempest wanted to sink their boat but they could not control the situation until they called upon the Lord Jesus Christ who rebuked the wind and it calmed down immediately.
CALL TO ACTION
Acknowledgement of the Lordship of Christ in the home will involve repentance from sin and faith in Christ. Moreover, prayerfully, obedience to the word of God, forgiveness and Christlike love ingredients for mending the cracks in the broken walls of marriage.
Wives be submissive in all things, (sex inclusive.) When your husband needs your attention in bed, do not say you are not in the mood because doing this engages his attention to other wolves outside your home that are ready to care for him. It is even a sin when you deprive your husband of sex, this would make him not to do his obligation as a husband to you. When you are submissive as a wife to your husband in all things, he will love you like there's no other woman like you in the while wide world.
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