In Ephesians 5: 22 Paul is speaking about marriage and how to raise children, he addresses the women first. Wives submit yourselves to your own husbands, as unto the Lord. What a statement, for it becomes the duty of the women to encourage the husband, not by harping or dripping, but getting along side of. (Men do not walk in front of your wife, walk along side your wife, show your one.) Women your mans home is his castle, so make sure he has one to come home to, he will treat you with love and affection, because it’s a good thought. No it is a right, that needs our attention.
Wives your husband is to be submitted to, waited upon, just as God waits upon us, wanting to give us what’s best at all times, as we are attached to Him. The Church is symbolic of the wife and the Church, when we are attached to it, brings fulfillment and satisfaction. No other women can take your place with that man. Protect him and guard against any spirit of jealousy, for jealousy will destroy any marriage.
Now husbands love your wife, even as Christ also loved the Church. Give you time, your job, your all to your wife. She needs your protection, security and all your able to give her. Pray with her, lift her up, communicate with her. Know one another, to show one another, you care. Men you have not just caught her, now you have to provide for her, that is what is lacking in our homes to day.
We have children and what are they learning in our homes? They are going to learn most by the role model of parents, you can’t be a absentee Dad or Mom. You can’t let your kids take care of kids? It is the responsibility of Mom and Dad to watch and care, discipline and love their kids.
The schools have a responsibility to educate in reading, math, spelling, and socializing under guide lines and rules, but parents need to be teaching morals, ethics and Bible Principles. The Schools have to become more accountable for what they teach, in relation to what is the truth. It is not mans truth, or opinions, but Gods truth, or we are all going to become lawless. Do we not have police in our schools today?
The Government many times is taking our kids from us, because of abuse in the home, when really it is parents wanting to correct, but some do gooders say, a spanking on the bottom is wrong. Let’s understand the difference between correction and abuse. No one wants to be corrected and it is hurting society and breaking up home across our land, for we are not apply the board of education, where it needs to be applied. But yet we put people in jails and prisons, because they were not disciplines at homes.
The Church has programs that entertain and tickle kids fancy, song fest and other programs to hold there attention, but what are we doing to train kids morality and ethic? The need for following the Lord and the consequences if we do not discipline ouselves and resist those basic urges are mentioned in Colossians 3:5-10. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, (that is resisting like a butterfly in the cocoon , you do not poke around and try to free him, he has to resist and work his way out, becoming free to fly and be beautiful.) The list is long, of wrongs in our world, but lets teach what is right that make us beautiful. This happen as parents accept their duties and responsibilities towards their kids.
Husbands we are gifts to our wives and our families, just as Jesus is a gift to the World. Gifts need to be taken care of, men we need to take care of ourselves, to make sure our bodies are able to work and provide for the well being of our families. Jesus gave His all for us, what are we putting out for our families? Are we saying it’s too expensive, or we do not have the time? It’s your kids, discipline yourselves in what you spend and need. Don’t allow yourselves to get caught by the trap, of your wanting it, for you’ll get it every time. But do you know the consequence of your actions and behavior? Men and women do not set consequences; Almighty God predetermines them. Can we walk out of our obligation?
Let’s implement the will of the Lord in our homes as we continue to seek Him.