Thursday, October 2, 2014

Partners Not Parents

"Wives be submissive to your own husbands" (1 Peter 3:1).

We said last time, “Submission means we submit to our husbands all we have to offer, our wisdom, our insight, our thoughts, our talents, our abilities, our understandings, our warnings all that God has given us to bless our partner.  Silence is not always submission.”

Peter points out the attitude in which a woman submits to her husband.  She is not panicked (1 Peter 3:4, 6) and her strength is in the Lord, not in her husband (3:2 Fear of the Lord, not her husband, see verse 5). 


She does not nag or try to cause her husband to submit to God (1 Peter 3:1)  Husband are adults able and responsible to make decisions.  Wives are partners, not parents.