How
God designed a Woman as a Wife?
A God believer wife follow Gods commandment and know
what God wants her to be as a wife. God created a woman as a helper of a man,
not a helper that will clean, cook or to be treated like a servant but a helper
in life.
·
HELPER
means, ones that helps; as an assistant.
·
ASSISTANT
means
helping aid or subordinate.
·
SERVANT
means a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
·
SLAVE
means
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another.
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord
God had formed6
every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the
man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature
that was its name. 20 The
man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every
beast of the field. But for Adam7
there was not found a helper fit for him. – (Genesis
2:18)
So
God created a woman to be a helper to a man that fit for him, because of all
other Gods creation there was not found that will fit to a man that fit to him.
So
being a helper, assistant, subordinate of a man. As a woman we have a big role
in man’s life. As a helper to a man we should assist a man in his life to be successful
not a failure. As a woman we are created to be an assistant or
subordinate so we not to rule over him but to be equal with him. But since man
was created first, God wants a woman to submit to their husbands. A woman should submit to
her husband, that’s what God created a wife for. Submission to a husband does
not mean to be trampled upon or to be treated like a doormat. Submission is a
natural response from a wife to her husband.
Husbands
love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her,
having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the
church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that
she might be holy and without blemish.1
28 in the same way husbands
should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves
himself. 29 For no
one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ
does the church, 30 because
we are members of his body. 31 therefore
a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two
shall become one flesh.” 32 This
mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you
love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. – (Ephesians 5:25-33)
A
man should submit to Christ like Christ submits to God so the woman should
submit to their husbands. Biblical submission is designed to be between two Spirit-filled
believers who are mutually yielded to each other and to God. Submission is a
two-way street. Submission is a position of honor and completeness. When a wife
is loved as the church is loved by Christ, submission is not difficult.
“The woman was made out of Adam’s
side. She was not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to
be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his
arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.” -
Matthew Henry
As
a believer we should submit to one another for the reverence of Christ.
“Addressing one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord
with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence
for Christ.” –
(Ephesians 5:19-21)
In a truth as a faithful believer of God we should be;
Worshipper
Thankful
Submissive
A wife should submit to her husband, not for the
reason that as a woman we are inferior, but for the reason that, that is how
God designed the marital relationship to function. Submission is not a wife’s to
be treaded on by her husband. Rather, with the help of the Holy Spirit, a wife
submits to her husband, and a husband sacrificially loves his wife.
The Creation of Woman
“The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. – (Genesis 2:24-25)
“The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. – (Genesis 2:24-25)
