Ephesians 5:22-33 KJV
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Why do I put scripture in blue ink? Simply put it the blueprints of our spiritual life. It teaches about our walk with Jesus, and with the power of the Holy Spirit working in our life to be productive for God the Father. Thinking on the fact some believers never seem to ever make it to the door of the church are they submissive to other believers. One of the best training grounds in faith is to be able to help your church, the people in the church, and to be testimony yourself in the church. What if you fail to go, maybe you do not have money. Maybe you do not have nice clothes, most churches will still welcome you to a point. I heard one minister say he kicked a few out for not paying tithes and I thought maybe they were really that poor and maybe they were that stingy with their money, I have no clue which. However when a minister preaches he relies on the money the church gives him as his salary, someone not paying tithes can effect the whole church who not paying tithes. Now I not one to tell you what you should put or not put in the offering plate. I not one to ask where your money goes. Some without money have skills and to much time on their hands that often can help in the work of the Lord even at a minimal of service to the church. The work of God always in need of labors inside and outside the church. Don't look at some purse strings as giving someone the right to minister. Don't allow one's attire to stop allowing someone to minister. Pray if you can do nothing else that God will send someone with what they need. You don't have extra loaf of toast pray for the person down the street in needs a loaf of toast and three starving children. Share your loaf if you can. Buy one get one free, give the free one away if you not using it, it new. Get the extra one and share it.

Church should be the place of learning how to give, even when you have nothing to share, or when you have to much that you need to dispense of it. If you find yourself wondering who did you marry in the since of contract ask when you receive Jesus invitation of eternal life and your received it, it was a free gift. It a gift for a life time. Not one person can truly pay back the gift of God. Yet God wants to take us as we are and mold us into what He want us to be. People of faith, love, hope and other fruits and gifts of the Spirit learn to submit even their ability to God.

The relationship between husband and wife is often used to symbolize the role of the people of the church to Christ. Christ being the husband and the church being the bride. Here Paul is talking about both marriages of the marriage of same sex couples and the church. The relationship of wife submitting to the will of her husband working along side her husband goals and so forth. In modern world most relationships today seem to have two heads and they say it better then having one head, but in truth it can lead to a split over jobs and other interest then producing a relationship of submission to each other goals. In old days lady might say honey I going shopping give me some money. Yet today women say I have my own money and i going shopping and you can stay home or go hang out somewhere else while i get the grocery, or cloth shopping done. Something wrong with that picture. Ladies it time that second head says, "honey it time to help in the grocery store and cloth shopping it matters not who pays, that joint acount is for bills and our needs and the other accounts are personal, but transferable if necessary. Get off the couch and stop watching the tv and go with me and the kids and get the groceries in the store. I work double shift. One at work and one at home, while you hang out with friends or in the old lazy boy recliner. No not happening today. You going shopping and you going to see the price of the groceries and go on that diet the doctor order you on".

In truth women we still allow them to sit on the couch why because of the perfection of how we like things run. Submission does not mean slavery, it means equality, with one person taking leadership role maybe not in all areas of things that need attending too. Working in submission to each other. Finding out who does better at certain things and submitting to do those things and instructing how on things one has no clue on. It call working together to make a home, to make a place of safety. To make an ark, a safe place to rest, a nest to rest. Church should be a place of spiritual rest to be feed, to learn how to be the best Christian you can be, but it also a work of the Holy Spirit in the individual life. A place to pray, and to be prayed for.

To wives submission is a word to say allow the husband to have authority and respect. No wife does this correctly all the time. Especially us women that have learned in this century to speak boldly and proudly despite what others think. Does it conflict with scripture the attitude of woman being bold and acting bold. Deborah was bold, Queen Esther was acted bold, and Rebekkah was just plain bold. Woman learning to be bold and learning to still be in submission at the same time to those in authority over you. To know the freedom to speak up despite the conquences of doing so.

Husbands should love his wife body as he loves his own body. Christ loved the church and give of his ownself for the sins of the world. No great man has laid is life down but Jesus. He gave it all up for you and me and returned to receive it all again, the hope of the church. Husbands and wives have to learn to make sacrifices in their marriage for their marriage. Sometimes it not easy and sometimes in truth it becomes very hard. Yet what we learn is long suffering, gentleness and when we fail we learn one can be forgiven. We learn mercy in marriage, that can be learned also through friends and through the church. Yet to know God mercy and grace never fails, yet man's mercy and grace can fail, and is the best gift of love. God gives man through his cross his forgiveness and through his resurrection the hope and assurance of eternal life through faith in Christ Jesus.

Are we willing as wives to lay our life down to help our mate? How about our friends? How much time will you stop and help a stranger? Husband should have that love to demonstrate that love for his wife and yet still give her the freedom she needs to grow and bloom as individual.

Dear Heavenly Father, teach your church submission to each other and to others in need, to care for those inside and outside the church. Lord how wives to be submissive to their husband even with the boldness to stand up in times of need. in the marriage, in the home and outside in the world. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: 1 John 3:16-24 KJV
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.