"Obedient to their own husbands"-Part One

I recently started going through one of my favorite books again, and last night, this was the chapter that I read, and the phrase of the verse that it covers.


Titus 2:4-5 "That they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet,
chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed."

Our culture tells us that a woman who is independent and equal in position among men, meaning that "she can do anything a man can do, and probably better at that", can "make her mind up for herself" or "know her own mind", intelligent and lucrative according to the world's standards, outwardly beautiful and not too humble, chaste, reverent, loving, and serving of others, is a success. This is a direct lie from satan that even the church has accepted in many ways. In times like these we must come back to scripture and ask God what HE thinks a successful woman looks like....what HE thinks a beautiful woman looks like. This is one of the passages that He so clearly tells us what He wants His christian daughters to look like. I am focusing on the 8th commandment that He gives us women because this is the one that He has been laying on my heart lately.

Obedient: Yielding, willing and eager to accomplish injunctions or desires, abstaining from that which is forbidden.

It is sad that our culture, and yes, even the majority of christians today, look at a woman who is obedient or submissive as weak. We look down on someone who gives up their "rights" to the benefit of someone else..."She doesn't know her own mind, or stand up for herself. She's so quiet and meek, so 'uncool' " we think or say. But what does God's word say? He tells us that we are to be obedient to our husbands...."that the word of God be not blasphemed." This isn't just a suggestion. It's pretty scary to think that we as wives can blaspheme the word of God if we do not obey our husbands!!! And what does it look like to obey your husband?

"According to God's very words, apart from any cultural context, it is a woman's nature to place her full attention and interest upon her husband, and she is to be under her husband's rule. That is the will of God," (excerpt from Created to be His Help Meet)

"But I would have you know, that the head
of every man is Christ; and the head
of the woman is the man; and the
head of Christ is God" (I Cor. 11:3)

"There can be no cultural context that nullifies this verse, for it says that the basis of a man's headship is rooted in the very essence of the woman's created nature. Just as God is the head of Christ and Christ is the head of the man, so the man is the head of the woman (his wife)" (CtbHHM).

"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of
the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church:
and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the
church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be
to their own husbands in everything" (Eph.5:22-24)

"Here again-a second witness in Scripture-we wives are informed that our submission to our husband should be viewed with the same love and fervency as our submission and love for Christ. The text says that we submit "as unto the Lord," as if we were submitting to the Lord. Since my husband's authority is delegated by God, when I submit to my husband, I am recognizing God's authority, and I am indeed submitting to God" (CtbHHM).