"...but he will rule over you."
That means that he (the husband) should stand with a whip in his hand so that she will obey his every command, no matter what. Right?
Wrong.
Despite the fact that there are men that would love that, it would at best lead to so much anger and resentment towards him and at its worst, would be spousal abuse and sometimes even death.. Neither which would be condoned by God.
In the New Testament, God explains to us his own qualities of what marriage between husband and wife, should be. Starting with how the woman should willingly submit to her husband in the home, which was in Genesis 3:15. And following up in the New Testament, there it is again in Ephesians 5: 22. "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as unto the Lord."
But in Ephesians 5:21, it says "Submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God." And on down in verses 25 and 28, husbands are to love their wives as Christ loves the Church and lastly in verse 33, husbands are to love their wives as themselves, and wives are to reverence their husbands.
Admittingly, there can be problems with that. Character/sinful flaws in an overbearing husband that makes a wife hate him much less want to submit to them or revere him. Or the husband whose wife makes her duty to control every aspect of his life. God is not going to condone the behavior of those that are not willing to really love and support them and be guided by his Spirit.
In verse 32, Paul calls it a "great mystery." Yet, he likens the relationship between the husband and wife, as the relationship between Christ and the Church. Because he loves the Church, he also loves the marriage relationship. After all, it was he that created it all.
After the fall from grace that happened in the Garden that day, there have been no one that has come after that who have experienced God's blessing, like they did before they sinned. And that was why God had to send his Son to die for the disgrace that humanity brought on themselves. Our humanity.
But thankfully, he was willing. And so was his Son who went to the cross for those of that believe. Because though we have not known that kind of blessing yet, we will. It is waiting with God and Jesus on the other side. It is waiting there for us.
June 22, 2019 Promise: The Lord is good to those that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Lamentations 5:25
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