Obedient Wives

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“As the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.” Ephesians 5:2424Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. (Ephesians 5:24)
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:1010For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)
God tells us wives to be obedient to our husbands. Obedience from the heart is more than just the right motions or the absence of defiance. It is choosing to support our husbands and cheerfully recognize that they are the head of the family. We should pray for them, and we may share our thoughts and insights with them, but we need to remember God’s orderly plan.
Sarah is given as an example to us, and she called her husband “my lord” even in her silent thoughts (Gen. 18:1212Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? (Genesis 18:12)). It has been said that a man marries a wife expecting her never to change, and a woman marries a husband expecting to change him, but this is not a Christian perspective. We can build them up positively with our love and devotion, because a man naturally responds to a woman who thinks that he is number one; but God doesn’t ask us to change our husbands’ personalities. Your husband is God’s workmanship — not yours. We don’t know what God is doing, and our efforts to change our husband may only be interfering with God’s plan to conform him to the image of the Lord Jesus.