The Desert or the Promised Land Pt 2

I can hear you now, I don't care how good it gets! I'm not going to call my husband master! It's ok...I'm with you because I'm not quite there myself BUT although I'm not feelin the calling him master part. My attitude IS. We've all heard it said that your Attitude Determines Your Altitude. That is the truth! It will also determine your DECREASE in altitude. So let's look at this verse again.

I Peter 3:1-6
1 In the same way, you wives should yield to your husbands. Then, if some husbands do not obey God's teaching, they will be persuaded to believe without anyone's saying a word to them. They will be persuaded by the way their wives live.2 Your husbands will see the pure lives you live with your respect for God.3 It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful.4 No, your beauty should come from within you—the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never be destroyed and is very precious to God.5 In this same way the holy women who lived long ago and followed God made themselves beautiful, yielding to their own husbands.6 Sarah obeyed Abraham, her husband, and called him her master. And you women are true children of Sarah if you always do what is right and are not afraid.

Ok let's go line by line together...it's ok you can stop gnashing your teeth now!LOL!! Yield to your husbands. Not your girlfriends husbands or God forbid somebody else's husband, but YOUR husband. What does yield mean. Well I looked it up and it has a lot of definitions but these will suffice. Check this out! READY! OK (-:
1.To give up or surrender (oneself)
2.To give up or over; relinquish or resign
3.To give as due or required
WHEW! This is a Selah moment! Pause and calmly think about that! So we can see that God wants us to give up or surrender, relinquish or resign, give as due or required.
COME BACK!!!!! You can do it!!

Unfortunately we have been bombarded by a culture that has women chanting "Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you!!! What's the next line..the men sing no you can't and she sings YES I CAN and back and forth they go. Back and forth in front of their children, neighbors, family, coworkers, friends, and on and on. These things ought not be so. Why? Because that type of behavior doesn't bring glory to God and because it's OUT OF ORDER! Now I know some of you are very strong willed and independent. Maybe you were hurt and vowed to NEVER give that kind of surrender to any man ever again in life. Maybe you grew up without a dad like me, and all you've been exposed to is strong women handling their business. Maybe you've bought into the lie that women are far more superior than man. I hear you BUT that's not what God's Word says. We are God's daughters right? We are vessels for His glory to manifest in and through right? Then let me encourage you in this. We have to move past our corrupted and false views of womanhood and embrace the truth as women of God, striving to be all that God wants us to be. We are to be loving, yielding, supportive, gentle, kind, women of God. With the divorce statistics at ridiculous and extremely high rates we have to make sure that we as wives are doing everything to keep our marriages strong, healthy, and glory filled. Yes, I hear you ..men have to do their part too! Agreed! But how about, when we stand before God one day He's going to judge us on how we treated us our husbands, His son and vice versa. I can't control my husbands attitude but I can control mine. I want to be all that God wants me to be as a wife to His son don't you? I know you do, and yielding to our husbands more and more will bless our families, our sphere's of influence, and bring God glory.

Pray about it!!!

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