Submission Holds Heaven’s Attention

Wives, be subject to your own husbands. (1 Peter 3:1)When you imagine a submissive wife, what kind of woman comes to mind? Many of our neighbors, and even some Christians, would naturally picture a timid, compliant, drab woman, one who shuffles through life in the background, her voice unheard and her work unseen. Submissive, to them, is a synonym for weak, passive, unthinking, repressed. The picture is hardly compelling.When we come to Scripture, however, how does the submissive wife appear? At