Me husband, You wife

Okay here is the verse everyone has been waiting for. I have not touched on this verse or subject in any other blog it is Ephesians 5:22  

For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

There I said it. Well I didn’t really say it, it is in God’s word. This is one of those verses that many women will dismiss and some men will never touch because if you read it out of context just like this very divisive and controversial. Then there are the guys that will quote this verse in a heartbeat thinking this makes them superior to women. However once you get past this verse and go on to the next things begin to change. Verse 23 goes, “For a husband is the head of his wife”  still sounds good to those who want to drag their wives by their hair. But from here on is where it changes. “as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.”  Oh! That changes things. Now read verses 25-30.  

²⁵ For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her ²⁶ to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.^{[b] 27} He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. ²⁸ In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. ²⁹ No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. ³⁰ And we are members of his body.

Love your wife as Christ loved the church, He gave his life up for her, to make her holy and clean, present her without spot or wrinkle, love your wife as you love yourself. For all of the wives who get worked up over verse 22 when I read the rest of this I think I want to be a wife. The husband is given so much responsibility,  and so many commands to be a good husband it's really a challenge. If a husband would do all of the things that Christ commands, a wife would gladly submit to him. Remember submission is not being dragged on the ground.  Husbands need to step up and be like Christ.