...and thy desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. Genesis 3:16
Ah, our desire will be for our husband. Isn't that a good thing? Maybe not so much that second part. He will rule over us. How many woman can actually rejoice at that statement?
So what does God mean by those two statements anyway?Are they meant to be a blessing? Or a curse? What?
Let's summarize a bit. God had given them the perfect of all perfects settings.Each other. A beautiful garden to call home. Food to eat. Above all, his companionship.
Surely, there was harmony within their own relationship as husband and wife as well as all the above.
His only rule with which to keep it, was to not eat from that one pesky tree. And then all of it was gone in an instant. All because Eve's eyes were too big to see the consequences of what she was about to do.
If we put that in to context with what has happened since that time, it is perhaps easy to see. Husbands and wives, men and women that battle over the control of the opposite sex. Women don't want to be controlled by their husbands by nature. Rather they would want to be the ones that do the controlling. And some are very good at it. Likewise, men feel that it within their right to control their women, and some of them are very good at it, as well. (Albeit, neither is good at all.)
I have in my 60 plus years of life, seen how negative and damaging that they both can be. The woman that is so out of control that in her attempt to control her husband or even others, she makes everyone miserable. Or the neighbor, who years ago used the Bible as his excuse for trying to make his wife do everything he wanted. Which laughed in the face of God, because he didn't even go to church, much less know what the Bible said about how husbands are to love their wives as Christ loves the church.(And believe me, he didn't) Ephesians 5:21-30 teaches us that we are to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Be that as it may. The battle has raged on since from that first bite that Eve took in the Garden. Discord between the sexes that God had created to live in peace with. It was never his intention for us to control each other or anyone else for that matter. He gave us all minds to think with. He does not want us to be his puppets. Neither does he want us to be each others puppets.
Instead, we are to take our wedding vows seriously. To love and honor each other as Christ loved His Church. When we do that, our relationships are a blessing. Not a curse.
But perhaps that while this all makes sense, what about this "he will rule over you" statement?
Maybe tomorrow we can make some clearer understanding of it as we study a bit more. Please come back to find out.
June 19, 2019 Promise: Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Acts 3:19.
Hi Friends. Wow! What a promise. We need the Lord to come and refresh us, don't we? We need his presence in our lives every day! Have a blessed day!
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