Submitting to your husband - lessons I learned from Mary the wife of Joseph
I can remember many years ago while doing my quiet time, the Lord showed me how submission by a wife to her husband can be very instrumental to the vitality and well-being of a family. It can literally save a life. He showed me through a most unusual source: Mary. Up until that reading I had become use to thinking of Mary as "only being the mother of Jesus." I never thought of her in any other light. Well, I take that back. I thought of her as being "the virgin," too. I knew she had an obedient heart toward God by her responds to the angel Gabriel when he told her in Luke what was about to take place in her life. It's kind of hard for me to explain, but I'm going to try so stick with me. I knew that Mary was submissive to Joseph, Scripture is clearly shows that. However, I never really focused on her submission because I always thought, "Who wouldn't be submissive in her shoes?" I guess I kind of downplayed it in a sense. The ot...