Submitting to your husband and not to the world/society, and not to yourself is submitting to God!
Our worst enemy is often ourselves, our own desires. Think about it. "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You
desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what
you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not
ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God?
Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an
enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up... and in your marriage!
~ James 4:1-10
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