Extinction of Woman: Part 1 (Designed)

This week has been surreal. In an otherworldly sense. God has unveiled some truths for me. Ones that have left me unsettled.

You see, I've had the concept of Biblical submission weighing on my heart for the past few weeks. What it means for man to submit to God. What it means for a woman to submit to her husband. And does that mean submitting to God may not look the same for men and women?

I, like most modern women, dismissed submission as an out-dated custom. A friend of mine was the first to teach me about true submission. I still resisted her message. So she dared me. She challenged me to fully submit to my husband according to scripture. I love a good dare. So I agreed to submit for one whole week. Thinking it would be funny at the least and to inevitably prove that it was a ridiculous practice.

I didn't tell my husband about the experiment I was conducting in our household. Throughout the week as I practiced submission, he simply saw an easy-going, agreeable, nurturing, respectful, loving, selfless, and trusting wife. A version of me he'd never experienced. From my submission opened a door of gratitude, growth, strength, discernment, protection, loyalty, gentleness, and love from my husband. Submission produced harmony in our home. As though things were set right side up. Like we'd put order into our family for the first time. 

One may ask at this point, “Well, that’s not submission. That’s just being a good wife.” My goal isn’t to be a good wife. I thought I was a good wife the entire time I was a wife. I found that when I submit to my husband, I am fulfilling God’s design. When I serve and love and quiet my lips and heart, I submit to The Lord. For submission is a heavenly work all its own.

Today, I look outside our home and see an entire culture of disorder among men and women. Specifically in the Christian church and home. This message is not for the unbelieving woman. It is for the followers of Christ. The women who beg for breakthrough. For mountains to move. For their husbands to change. For their children to behave. More help with responsibilities. For more time for themselves. More recognition. More fulfillment. More equality. More freedom. More success. More applause. More platforms. More influence. More money. More, more, more. Me, me, me. My, my, my. I, I, I.

This message, my friend, is strictly for the Christian woman...

So many of us long to follow Jesus, but don’t want to discipline ourselves to truly transform. How do we receive wisdom if we pick and choose and twist and mold scripture to fit what’s comfortable? How can we discern if we don’t detach from culture? How do we see the path to heaven clearly if our eyes are fixed on a worldly viewpoint? How do we achieve breakthrough if we’re not willing to break first? 

How can we take up our cross if we don’t know who we are? What we were designed to do in this womanly form? What God’s true purpose is within the perimeters for the sex we were carefully chosen to be by our creator?

~Casey G.

a rooted life

What do you think about submission?