My Answers

Yesterday, I asked 3 questions about your thoughts on submission- with a promise to post my answers here today. Here goes : )

Ephesians 5:24

New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)

²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Question 1: What are your first thoughts when you read this verse?

Answer 1: "In everything? What does it mean to submit to Ross in everything? What does it mean to submit to him at all? Here, a wife's submission is compared to the submission of the church to Christ. When I think about it that way, I think of following after, honoring, and putting my desires aside for. Perhaps that's what it means to submit to Ross?"

Question 2: What do you think God thinks about submission?

Answer 2: "He created it, so He must think it's good : ) He commands it, so He must think it is important. And because He created it and commands it, I must trust it is for our good."

Question 3: What's your progress on applying this verse to your life? (think it's a good idea, but hesitant; don't like the idea, don't do it; etc.)

Answer 3: "Above all else, I want everything I do to please the One who made me. God has obviously commanded that wives submit to their husbands and I want to do that WELL. So I am in the process of praying about it, reading about it, asking questions about it, so that I might practically do it in a way that is honoring to God. That doesn't always mean that it is easy, though : ) "

We're going to continue this discussion in the blog posts ahead : )