A husband and wife were having a disagreement and stopped speaking to each other when suddenly, the husband realized that the next day he would need his wife to wake him up at 5 a.m. for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me up at 5 a.m.,” and he left it where he knew she would find it.
A husband and wife were having a disagreement and stopped speaking to each other when suddenly, the husband realized that the next day he would need his wife to wake him up at 5 a.m. for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me up at 5 a.m.,” and he left it where he knew she would find it.
The next morning the man woke up only to discover it was 9 a.m. and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife had not awakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed that said, “It is 5 a.m. Wake up!”
When it comes to marriages, we can do our best to try and find some humor in the tension, even though at the time it may not be so funny.
A wife once said, “the only thing I am going to submit to my husband is a complaint.” What was her comment in response to? A Bible verse that states, “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:22) This verse can quickly strike up heated conversations in churches, academia and in politics.
Am I stepping on a cultural landmine? No, rather our society is. When we debate away this divine truth, we are assuring the destruction of the American home. This verse is the cultural life preserver we need to help save our marriages and families.
Year after year, 40 to 50 percent of first-time marriages end in divorce, and for those who marry a second or third time, the likely hood of divorce climbs higher and higher. Do you know the percentage of children that will end up living in divorced homes? It is 40%, which amounts to millions of our kids. We have this mess because we are not building marriages and families God’s way.
Let me go back to Ephesians and read a little further, “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church…” (Eph. 5:22-23) Can you see what God is communicating? Order.
The concept came from our Creator. He made each of us with equal worth, but with different responsibilities. It reflects the Holy Trinity. God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit are separate but one with different responsibilities. The Spirit submits to the Father and the Son, while the Son submits to the Father. The Trinity reflects order.
God built the family and