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Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.<\/p>\n
\u2013Colossians 3:18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I love the story about a man who was at the airport, and he asked a stranger what time it was. The stranger set down the two large suitcases he was carrying and looked at his watch. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s 5:09 p.m. and 73 degrees. In London, the forecast is clear all week, and the barometer is 29.14 and falling. It\u2019s raining in Singapore. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n
The man interrupted, \u201cYour watch tells you all that? Where did you get it?\u201d The stranger replied, \u201cI actually made it. I\u2019m kind of an inventor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Impressed, the man said, \u201cI\u2019ll give you $2,000 for that watch.\u201d They haggled back and forth and finally agreed on a price of $10,000. The stranger gave his watch to the man, and the man paid him and began to walk away. \u201cWait!\u201d the stranger said, handing him the two heavy suitcases. \u201cDon\u2019t forget the batteries!\u201d<\/p>\n
We have a tendency to take simple things and make them unnecessarily complex, don\u2019t we? That\u2019s certainly true when it comes to the family. As a pastor, I\u2019m grateful for the plethora of books, sermons, and videos on how to have a successful family. But I think we\u2019ve given people the idea that having a successful family is very complex. The truth is, having a successful family is not easy, but it\u2019s not complicated either. In just four short verses, Paul gave us the ingredients for a successful home.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve come to the final section of Colossians 3. In this chapter, Paul talked about how to be a heavenly minded Christian\u2013in other words, how to become like Jesus Christ in your attitudes, actions, and affections. In verses 18\u201325, Paul gave two litmus tests to determine whether you\u2019re a heavenly minded Christian: how you behave at home and how you behave at work. The home and the workplace are the crucibles that test whether you\u2019re becoming like Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
In verses 18\u201321, Paul said, \u201cWives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.\u201d This week, we\u2019re going to look at the first of these simple commands, including what it means\u2013and what it does\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0mean\u2013for wives to submit to their husbands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. \u2013Colossians 3:18 I love the story about a man who was at the airport, and he asked a stranger what time it was. The stranger set down the two large suitcases he was carrying and looked at his watch. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s … Continue reading “53.l. Colossians 3:18 Pathway to Victory – Devotion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194314,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194311\/revisions\/194314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}