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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over by observing your pure and reverent lives.
1 Peter 3:1-2
This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
In a perfect world, every man and wife who would marry one another would be a Christian, equal in their belief system and committed to Jesus as the Head of their relationship.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world, do we?
Far from it actually.
And while I believe most Christian believers would seek to marry someone who is like minded in values, there are instances where Christians marry unbelievers. Further, there are couples that get married where neither the husband or wife is a disciple of Jesus but after marriage one of the two partners come to believe in Christ while the other doesn’t. If it’s the wife coming to belief, as is the case in most instances, then they find themselves in a marital situation that is unequally yoked. On one hand, the wife sees the Lord Jesus as the One with ultimate authority over her and her family while the husband typically wants to be viewed as the head of the household with a semblance of authority over their spouse.
In these instances, how are wives to handle the present conflict between her full submission to Christ’s authority while her husband is trying to impress his own?
As in so many other circumstances of life, we turn to the Word of God for guidance and direction. When we do, here’s what we find in the opening two verses of 1 Peter, chapter 3:
In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over by observing your pure and reverent lives. Vv.1-2
Here the wife gains the divine advice she needs. For the Lord allows for her to “accept the authority” of her husband. That is paramount to the problem finding its way to resolution and it doesn’t mean the wife is somehow disrespecting the Lord because He is the One giving the counsel.
In allowing the husband to be in charge of the marital relationship, the wife can impact him simply by being a Christian role model and example, allowing her godly life to speak to him without uttering a single word. Although not acknowledged formally for being in a position of authority, the spouse can powerfully lead and influence her husband who will be “won over by observing” here “pure and relevant” behavior.
In the end translation, the Lord can work through anyone in order to bring people to believe in Him. In this marital scenario, the wife becomes the instrument that He uses to get the husband to receive and accept the Gospel, submitting himself to the authority of Christ before entering into agreement with his Christian spouse regarding submission of their marriage to Him, the One who is to be the Head of that union.
I pray you’ll join me in praying for all marriages today, asking for the husband and wife to submit to Jesus in all that they do so that they, as a couple can be role models for other couples to emulate.
Lord, please make it so.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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