A Christian woman married to a Christian man carries a great advantage many may not know about.
It’s all about equality. Turns out God was way ahead of the modern era women’s rights movement, and as you would expect, His plan is far superior to anything humans could ever come up with. For starters, His plan has actually been implemented.
Apparently, when you’re the Soveriegn Creator of the Universe, you don’t need anyone’s approval or cooperation; you just decree it and it’s established. So, God did something in the New Testament that’s been misunderstood by many of its readers. He decreed that women are neither inferior to, subservient to, nor less valuable than men.
He stated through the quill of the Apostle Paul (Galatians 3:28) that in Christ…there is neither male nor female. All are one in Christ, He says, just as Jewish people and Gentile people and enslaved people and free people are one and loved and valued equally by God.
Galatians 3:28 is the verse most would think of first on this issue, but there’s more, and it is more imbedded than it is chapter and verse, more code than plain.
It’s in the terminology used, rather than a statement made.
Right there in the same chapter, the third chapter of Galatians, a little further up, God establishes that we are all sons of God. “Sons of God.” All of us, male and female.
Many Bible versions published since the 1970s changed it to “sons and daughters” to make it more gender-palatable to readers in our day.
But the reality is that being a son in God’s kingdom is better than being a daughter in any culture in earth’s history.
What we must understand is that son is about position rather than a gender. In most ancient cultures, the ones the writers of Scripture were relating to, son’s received all the inheritance; daughters became partakers of whatever inheritance their husbands received, but usually received nothing from their own parents.
So, women in God’s kingdom fare much better than women throughout history.
With this in mind, how do you think wives in God’s kingdom should be viewed, by themselves as well as their husbands?
To state it plainly, any Christian married couple who think the husband has more rights and privileges than the wife does are sorely misjudging their reality, misunderstanding the kingdom of which they are citizens, and don’t know well the God who is King of this Kingdom.
