This is the passage the contains the infamous passage about wives submitting to husbands. Now a lot of people don’t like this passage this day in age, they say it is sexist and it puts woman down. I would say, yes, Paul is somewhat sexist, and yes this day in age it can be easily read as if Paul is putting woman down. But, it is important to say that if this passage is read in the context of the time it is actually brining woman up. The second part of this sections says “husbands love your wives like Christ loves the Church.” This is really important because at the time this woman were lower then second class. This passage is actually saying that wives cannot rebel against their husbands because they have found Christ, and likewise husbands should treat their wives like human beings. These seem counter intuitive to new Christians for a variety of reasons, but mostly I think the cultural significance of Paul telling husbands not to treat woman as second class anymore is what I find significant. I believe that he is saying that marriage is a relationship not a male dictatorship which is not the trend of the day. Anyway, that is enough of that….I have lots of interesting thoughts about the context of this passage, but I have written enough on this…on to the questions.
Q: How have you been doing with listening to God each day? What makes it hard for you to hear from Him?
A: Man, this is hard. I sorta suck at this….I try to pray and listen to God, but a lot of times, it just ends up with me talking. But I have been trying to listen more carefully later, and I’ve had some success. People have told me that they believe that God wants to give me a vision for the where I’m going. In general after this weekends John Paul Jackson conference it kinda made me jealous of the gifted people around me. Now I know that according to the Bible anyone can hear from God, but it has always been a struggle for me. I’ve always been second guessing myself, and wondering what is God and what is me thinking stuff up in my head, so lately I’ve been listening about as well as I possibly can, and it is pretty good stuff. But now I must go to class.
This entry is late, I should have posted yesterday, but I’m tired and sick, and I had to work on tech team at church, so later today I’ll post the one for today, sorry this one is late.