"Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." ~ The Lord God
There was a woman in a ladies Bible study that carried on and on about a grandiose good work that she wanted to start. Yes, it would be an all consuming project but she was certain she was going to reach thousands of people for Christ. Exciting right? If only her husband wasn't dead set against it, she fumed. She was plotting to push through with her ideas anyway and risk her marriage because she just knew that this was a good plan. She was convinced that he was being unreasonable by insisting that she was already spread too thin with her time and resources. In her eyes, by denying her the green light, he was disobeying the Lord. In my eyes, he was protecting her from burn out. She asked us what we thought.
I told her that if she went ahead with this that it would be HER disobeying the Lord not him. Her eyes grew wide at my obviously unexpected answer. The Bible says, "Wives, submit to your husband, as is fitting in the Lord". If you reject this word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do you have? If your foundation for good works is rebellion how good are those works really? Be careful whose wisdom you embrace by disobeying God. Especially, if you are deceived into thinking that you're doing it for Him.
"For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry." ~Samuel
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