Rich in mercy

 What's your vice?  Is it wine, ice cream, or chocolate?  Maybe a little combination of that and shopping, binge-watching someone else's made-up life, or "escaping" to meet up with some other clucky hens, or maybe it's just finding solitude.  If you're finding yourself pulled to these things, you might want to deeply consider where the conflict of submission is.  What are you resisting in God's order?  Maybe you think you're doing it all right.... take some of that time you're running away and make it time to ask God and dig in the Word.  Proverbs is rich with instruction.  Paul includes in many of his letters God's order for marriage.  God is so good, he doesn't want us to be clueless, susceptible to our flesh and the lies of Satan and order of this world.  

Why is it so import to learn to "submit to our husbands as unto the Lord"?  Because that is truly the key to the blessed life.  We submit first to the Lord, and even when our husbands are not believing, submit to him only.  What does this do to a marriage, a family, a community?  "no one will malign the word of God.", or that the word of the Lord be not blasphemed.  The truth, God's good order, will prevail in that it is undeniably good.  May it take some time?  Yes, in our experience of it.  But I do also think, through experience and other's testimony, that the quicker and more genuinely we take up our assignment with the joy of the Lord (as doing it unto the Lord with joy), the quicker we will start seeing blessings/results.  

God will bless the faithful.