My thoughts after drinking caffeine for the first time in months...

Tonight a group of highly respected people who are currently in my life, began to discuss submission. Oh, submission. So many women tremble at the sound of those words. But I am not one of those women. So to be fair to those women, I'm just going to put it out there right now that I don't fully understand that stance...so all I say is certainly built on certain feelings I have about it, but is also, Lord willing, based on what the word of God says.

I read the book Under Cover a few years ago and it changed my ENTIRE perspective on authority. We live in a culture that regularly promotes undermining, disrespecting, demoralizing, and all out disobeying authority. Have you ever heard the saying, "What they don't know, won't hurt them?" There are thousands more sayings just like this, and the purpose of those comments is for you to be exalted, and your authority to be made stupid.

But what is spiritual authority? And what is it's purpose? I honestly don't have all the answers to those questions, but one thing I do know that it is not meant to restrict, but to give freedom. "For it is for FREEDOM that we have been set FREE." So we are free. I heard a story once of children playing in a back yard. For a period of time there was no fence that gave boundaries to the yard, and the children didn't play much farther than 10 feet away from the house, not because they were told too, but because they didn't feel safe venturing off. The parents then built a fence, and the moment that fence went up the children felt the freedom to run ALL around the fenced in area. They were no longer confined in lack of safety. I believe that authorities, of all kinds, are like that fence. Giving us the freedom to run where we ought to run. It is, however, our choice to jump the fence, and that, my friends, is called rebellion.

Entering into a marriage, a woman naturally comes under the submission (the authority) of a man. It is her role. "...wives, submit to your husbands." Many women believe that it takes away from their independence. "Having to submit means that I will never be able to win a battle, or that my thoughts won't matter, or that I will be bound so closely to a man, I won't have my freedom." Those are valid, but immature thoughts, in my opinion. It should be considered an honor, a protection, even a blessing to be under the authority of a man. Why? Well...one major reason is because his level of eternal accountability will be 100 times more extreme, than yours. Another is because, that is who God created HIM to be. We women like to steal the role of men because we think we have some right, but we were NOT created to be the spiritual authority, we are created to be the spiritually submissive! We should be esteeming him in his role, and be identified by our role.

I realize that I'm BARELY scratching the surface here...

Don't you want to be protected? Submitting to your husband is one INCREDIBLE way that God has given you protection. Don't you want to enjoy freedom, the way the Lord intended it? Then submission is the answer for you!

And a warning, oh daughters of Eve, we are manipulative. We know how to let the "Man be the head, but the woman (us) is the neck, and we can turn the head which ever way we want." Don't have a false sense of submission, trying to manipulate the "head" is NOT submissive. Trust your husband, he has the world (his and yours) on his shoulders. You can help him carry it by being humble in heart, and submitting under his authority.

Once again, these are words from an unmarried woman...so...take it or leave it...