Thinking back on yesterday's passage,  I find myself meditating on the relationships we were created to have..

God, the Father, Supreme and Sovereign Creator for whom we were made... He is the Head.
Therefore we bow before Him in worship, awe, and total surrender. ..Acknowledging Him in every aspect of our lives.

Christ is the Head of the Church.. and the head of every man.   He goes before. He reigns over.  He takes the lead and the responsibility for His flock.  Therefore, we follow Him, obey Him, and draw near to Him. We confess Him as Lord of all.

The man is head of his wife.  He is the leader, but he is also the protector.. the covering shield over his family.  He takes the responsibility for his wife and children.. physically, spiritually, emotionally, and financially .  He is to be submissive to Christ first and always.  He is to love and cherish his wife.. always.

Our world has ignored and rebelled.. and challenged this order.. to the point that everything that God has made us for.. is maligned and ridiculed by those for whom Christ died.  

Jesus Christ came to restore us to right relationship with our Creator..that we might  love Him with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength... that we might once again know Him and the glory of Who He is.

Christ came.. being the "image of the invisible God" .. to provide the way to redemption and restoration..to pay the price;  to give new life - supernatural/ spiritual life - to all who will believe in Him.  He came as an example and as a perfect provider, that we might, through Him.. be made perfect.

In Christ, a marriage is balanced.. the husband leads, protects, provides, and serves his family, so that there is love and peace and joy.. and blessing.  The wife is able then to encourage and respect her husband, to nurture her children,  and be a helpmate that she is created to be. They share together in all that Christ has given them.. equals.. partners.. with great joy and peace.

If we do not recognize or honor God;  if we do not know or follow Jesus completely;  we will not have all that He has graciously prepared for us.  And we cannot have the blessings of marriage and family that He so desires to give us.

Which takes my thoughts back to Romans 1: 28 -32  "And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy , unloving, unmerciful.... worthy of death." 

All of the hatred and bitterness.. the anger and division and strife.. that our country is experiencing goes back to these truths.  Without acknowledging and honoring God, without knowing Jesus as Lord and Savior.. we will not have right relationships with each other.. we will not love one another.. or love our neighbor as ourselves.

Oh Father, glorious above.. forgive us and bring us back to Your Word.  Shine Your light into our hearts and minds that we might know the Truth that sets us free.. from sin, death, and destruction.
Fill Your Church, the Body of Christ with Your Spirit.. be Present with us in new and powerful ways that we shine brightly in our dark and hurting world.  We ask this in the name of the Beautiful One, Jesus Christ, our Lord and King. Amen.