Authority Must Come With Responsibility What your husband wants is your acknowledgment that he is the leader, the one in authority. This is not to grind you down or treat you as inferior. It is only to say because Y’shua has made your husband responsible (Ephesians 5:25-33), he needs the authority to carry out that responsibility. No smoothly running organization can have two heads. To set up a marriage with two equals at the head is to set it up for failure. That is one of the big reasons that people are divorcing right and left today. In essence, these marriages do not have anyone in charge. Y’shua knew someone had to be in charge, and that is why Scripture clearly teaches that, in order for things to work, the wife is called upon to defer to her husband. Ber 3:16 Unto the Isha he said, I (YHWH) will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. (KJV) Isha always tell me that if they submit to their husbands, it means burying their brains and becoming a doormat. If you want to work with your husband to reach mutually satisfying decisions most of the time, follow principle: Go on record with your husband that you see him as having 51% of the responsibility and, therefore, 51% of the authority. Tell him that you see him as having more authority because he has more responsibility before Y’shua– the responsibility to die for you, if necessary. My prediction is that the nature of your arguments and disagreements will change dramatically. Once you go on record about his authority, he will not feel that you are trying to be the boss. As you submit (which simply means recognizing his biblically given authority), you will not be a doormat. In fact, you will get your way far more often than you would if you “stood up for your rights,” which usually means being disrespectful.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:25:56 +0000
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