Airpower Discussion Of The Week - Answer: Should a Christian Woman Stay In An Abusive Marriage? I will like us to begin by looking at two scriptures which deal with different God-ordained leadership structures. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye service, as men pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: Colossians 3:18-22 I want you to notice that wives are to submit to their husbands, children to parents, and servants to masters. The question is what if any of the heads abuse their position by abusing those who are to submit to them? I will like us to examine two scenarios in the bible where abuse took place between a master and a servant. The reaction of the servants gives us an idea about what is allowed when abuse takes place in a relationship since they are all God ordained and even grouped together. The case of David Saul abused David by trying to kill him several times. David tried to stay but Saul pursued him continually so he fled. There is no indication he even asked God about his decision. So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 1 Samuel 19:18 The case of Jacob Laban abused Jacob by exploiting him financially and deceiving him for years. And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. Genesis 31:22 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Genesis 31:41 The principle is this: the fact that you are under God ordained authority does not mean you should remain under that authority when you are consistently being abused and your life and welfare are at stake. In both cases they all did not repay evil for evil but rather fled. It is legitimate to separate yourself from an abusive relationship and try and restore the relationship from a safe distance as David did because your life is superior to the relationship. In the case of Jacob it was even God who advised him to flee. Blessings!
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 03:05:43 +0000
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