The Power of Submission - pgs 146-156
Realize
1. Read Ephesians 5:22-23. In what ways should a Christian marriage be a picture of the redemptive relationship between Christ and His church?
2. According to verses 22 and 33, what are the two ways wives are called to respond to their husbands?
Reflect
3. How does submission to God-ordained authority reveal that we are trusting in God?
4. What happens when a woman becomes frustrated with her husband's leadership (or lack of leadership) and takes matters into her own hands? How does that affect her, her husband, and their relationship?
Respond
5. Married women: What is one specific area where you need to pray and wait on the Lord to change your husband's heart, rather than jumping in to handle the matter yourself?
Unmarried women: Even apart from marriage, women can affirm appropriate male leadership by making room for men to take initiative. What is one way you can do this in your relationship with a man such as your father, your employer or your pastor?
6. Married women: How do your responses and your attitude toward your husband measure up to the standard of Ephesians 5?
Unmarried women: How well are you submitting to whatever human authorities God has placed over you?
Prayer of the Day
Lord, I confess that I often struggle against submission. Help me to show my submission to You by the way I respond to my husband's leadership. Thank You that even when my husband (or another authority) fails, I can trust You to protect me as I walk in submission to Your Word. Amen.
1 comment:
Wow! Those two lies go against everything that we are bombarded with in our culture. Even the heroes in the TV shows are now women who are stronger than the men or the children who are stronger than either parent. It's amazing how Satan has trained the children-the future leaders of this country and their homes- to go along with a role reversal and let the women or the children lead the home while the husband or the parents do their own thing.
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