Rambling Thoughts Today

I've been pondering a thought today, and I want to write about it a little bit. The thought is mainly directed toward my fellow sisters in Christ, and it goes like this:

Submission to your husband doesn't get you off the hook from hearing from the Holy Spirit yourself.

Hmmm... Let's think about this thought for a minute. You might be asking, "What do you mean, Tina? I don't understand what you are saying here?" Well, let me explain a little bit more about my thought. And please, if you have any comments to share or thoughts, feel free to post a comment to me about this. I welcome your thoughts.

There seems to be an internal mentality or belief system in many Christian circles on the topic of submission which plays out in the woman's head something like this:

Husband: I want you to do such and such...

Wife: (smiling) Okay. (internal conversation: "I think this is the wrong approach and I have told him, but I need to submit to what he says regardless. Ultimately, he is the one who will stand before the Lord and be responsible for me and our children. It's not going to fall on me. It's not going to be my fault. My only duty as a wife is to submit to his authority as my husband. If I submit and just pray for him, God will work it all out without me having to stand for what I believe is right. Whew, that takes the pressure off of me!)

Can anyone out there in Netland identify with this, or am I the only one? Maybe I am the only one who has had this internal conversation and this belief, but I am highly doubtful of this. As a matter of fact, I had a close friend recently jokingly express this very thing to me. She basically said, "I have to admit, I have kind of liked the fact that I could pass the buck to my husband!"

The fact is Galatians 3:26-28:

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Let me make a statement here as well. Ladies, our husbands are not our saviors. They are not now, and they never will be. In the spirit, we are all the same in God's eyes. We can be every bit as gifted spiritually, and we can hear every bit as clearly what the Holy Spirit is saying to us. And the Holy Spirit's number one message to married women is not "submit to your husband!" The Holy Spirit's message to us is unique in each woman's life and in each individual circumstance or situation. The Holy Spirit is not limited to a box in the ways He chooses to speak to a person. That is legalism, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty! The only thing He will never do is to contradict the spirit of the law, God's revealed Word.

I know this is a somewhat deep and controversial subject, but just something that is rambling around in my head today. Inevitably, there will be some who might want to accuse me of rebellion against my husband or some other such thing, yet this is not my intention at all. I will state emphatically that I love and respect my husband and honor him as the one whom the Lord has chosen for me to share this life with. Yet, as the Holy Spirit leads, I believe we are to help our husbands in whatever way the Spirit leads us, and sometimes that is the way of choosing to follow the Spirit's lead over the husband's.

More to come later... Blessings!