A Charge To Wives To Submit To Their Husbands
Your charge also comes from Ephesians 5 where you are told to submit your husband “as to the Lord”! Your calling is to show your husband and all others something of a picture of the glorified Church’s love and dedication to Christ.
Once again, your submission to your husband and respect for him can only be empowered by the Holy Spirit. If you rely on your own strength, you won’t be able to respect him when he doesn’t deserve to be respected.
You also need to remember that there will be days when you will see how ugly your husband’s heart is! There will be days when he is harsh, insensitive, and unloving. But it is especially important in those days to show him that same unwavering love of Christ.
Jesus does not give up on you when you run away from Him. He shows you mercy and grace, forgiveness and cleansing even when you sin. And when this is the foundation of your marriage, this will be what God will use to sanctify him as well. You have an incredible privilege to be used by God as He makes your husband more and more like Jesus. When you soak in the grace of the gospel for yourself, you’ll be able to show it to him, and he will be transformed more and more into the image of Christ.