When you jump in your car to make a trip or run an errand you are trusting that the vehicle that you carefully maintain is in good and safe condition. As you drive down the road you are careful. You make every effort to obey the rules of the road and make wise, prudent decisions. You are depending on the other motorists to do the same. Yet, you have no control over their actions, their decisions, or the condition of their equipment. No doubt, in your prayer time you have placed in God's hands those things that are outside the range of your influence. And so you continue on your way.
I was thinking about this a while ago when I attended a women's meeting. On the subject of submission someone offered that wives are only expected to submit to their husbands as their husbands submit to God. That sounds like a sensible approach to a process (submission) that holds so much potential danger.
And yet, a study of the Word does not support this conclusion. When a wife obeys the instructions of God she is in much the same position as when she drives her car. She can only control the vehicle she is driving. Whether or not the other drivers are being as diligent as she does not change her responsibility to adhere to the rules of safe travel. If "submission" is a rule of safe travel for wives we must follow that rule, entrusting to God all of those things that are outside our range of influence. The condition of our husbands' relationship with God is not a condition of our obedience to the Word. Trusting God, we submit, and continue on our way.
Tina Green, 2010
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