Trust and Obey

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, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. — Ephesians 5:22-23

In addressing Christian family relationships, the Apostle Paul addresses the wives first. He instructs, "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord." While God created both genders in His image (Genesis 1:26-28), Christian wives' submission to their husbands proceeds from their obedience to Christ. 

What does submission look like? Christ gives us the ultimate example of submission to God. The Apostle Paul writes in Philippians, 

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. — Philippians 2:5–8

As we continue to look at how to honor God in our lives through obedience, let us look to Christ, our Savior, who humbly obeyed his Father. As the author of the hymn Trust and Obey wrote, 

Trust and obey,
For there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus,
But to trust and obey. — John Sammis