SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/14/2019
10:46 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“The Manner of Submission”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:22b
Message of the
verse: “as to the Lord.”
It is the manner or the attitude of submission is to be “as
to the Lord.” We are to do everything in
obedience to the Lord, and this should also be done first of all for to the
glory of the Lord in order to please Him.
MacArthur writes “Those to whom we submit, whether in mutual submission
or in response to their functional authority, will often not inspire respect. Sometimes they will be thoughtless,
inconsiderate, abusive, and ungrateful.
But the Spirit-filled believer—in this instance, the wife—submits anyway,
because that is the Lord’s will and her submission is to Him. A wife who properly submits to her husband
also submits ‘to the Lord’. And a wife
who does not submit to her husband also does not submit to the Lord.”
The Motive of Submission:
(Ephesians 5:23a) “For the husband is
the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church.”
In
my Scripture reading for today I was reading from the 11th and 12th
chapter of 1 Corinthians and in the first part of the 11th chapter
Paul writes things about submission: “3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of
every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.” Paul is talking about the order of things,
and states that it was woman to first come out of man, and then after that all
men came out of women. I mentioned this
in an earlier SD that in the Godhead there is submission as seen in this
section.
John
MacArthur writes “The wife’s supreme motive for submitting to her husband is
the fact that he is her functional head in the family, just ‘as Christ also is
the head of the Church (cf. 1 Cor. 11:3; Col. 1:18; and see Eph. 1:22-23). The head gives direction and the body responds. A physical body that does not respond to the
direction of the head is crippled, paralyzed, or spastic. Likewise, a wife who does not properly
respond to the direction of her husband manifests a serious spiritual dysfunction. On the other hand, a wife who willingly and
lovingly responds to her husband’s leadership as to the Lord is an honor to her
Lord, her husband, her family, her church and herself. She is also a beautiful testimony to the Lord
before in view of the world around her.”
I
mentioned that this would be a rather short SD, but it is packed full of very
useful things to think about and to do.
Don’t worry wives the next section is for the husband, right after we do
one more sub-section for the wives.
The Scripture that goes along with the
quotation from Abraham Lincoln is from Proverbs 21:1 “The king’s heart is in
the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.”
8/14/2019 11:05 AM
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