Hide and Seek
by: kbyrn
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Ephesians 5:21 - Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
One of the hardest things for some of us to do is to give up our own desires to serve those of someone else. It is so easy to say, " I have my own problems, take care of your own." Being a christian means exhibiting the traits and behaviors that Christ had, to become like him.
In our lives, are we being self centered, not caring about the needs of others and only our own? If our husband corrects us and says that something needs done a different way, are we complaining and arguing that we are going to just do it our way and that's that? What makes it so hard for us to not accept someone else's authority in our lives?
Everyone has a tendency to want to serve themselves. It is much easier to understand urgency in our lives, and the fact that we need something done for us. We tend not to see that others needs, small as they may seem to us, can be a major problem or need for that person. We play a vital role as a wife, mother and friend when we take time to care about those around us and help lift the burden off of others. Imagine if our husbands didn't have an extra load of care when he got home from his job. He wouldn't be as tired or stressed out and in turn we would see a happier home. Yes, we carry a heavy load at home, he in turn, carries an equally heavy burden being out in the world with the influences of the world on top of the burden of a career or job. Sometimes, we get spoiled brat syndrome and think the life we have at home or with our jobs is just SOOOOOO much more rough than he'd ever know without fully understanding the stresses that are in his life. The second he asks us a favor when he gets home, the majority of women today would probably respond with a "do it yourself" type comment, or a complaint about how our day was just so stressful that we can't do anything for anyone else but ourselves. We carry this attitude over to our friends and families in the same respects. How can they see Christ in us if we are unwilling to be a servant to those around us?
Second, I'd like to look at how we respond when we are asked to do something that we don't want to do by our husbands. In Ephesians we see a familiar passage about wives submitting themselves to their husbands and husbands in turn loving their wives as Christ loved the church. When we show a sweet, meek, submissive spirit it makes it difficult for our husbands to look at us a shrew. Simply put, if we want to be treated like a lady, we must behave like a lady. If we don't want to be treated like a mouthy brat we must not act like a mouthy brat.
As long as we're alive and living in a carnal body, we are going to have tendency to want to fulfill the lusts of our flesh. Our carnal side loves to be self serving, arrogant, and full of itself. There is a great battle day in and day out between the new life that is in us through Christ and the old ways of our flesh that want to bog us down and hold us back from being Christ-like. Solution to this problem, immerse yourself in God's Word every day. Proverbs 8:17 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. The wisdom to overcome our obstacles daily is hidden in God's word and it is up to us to go seek it and find it before our flesh comes and finds us for the day. Pray constantly throughout the day that God would give you the victory over your flesh and when faced with needing to submit to someone else, go against your flesh on purpose.
God Bless,
Kelly Byrn
2007
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29 year old stay at home mother and writer, born again christian for 4 years.
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