The value of the good wife is almost inexpressible.

Proverbs 12:4 (ESV)
⁴  An excellent wife is the crown of her husband…

Proverbs 18:22 (ESV)
²²  He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

Husbands, you should love and respect your wives, and treat them like the crown and jewels that they are.  Treat them like the special gifts that God, in His infinite grace, has given you because that is what the Bible says they are.

But, wives, you must remember that you are only crowns to your husbands if you play your God-given role well.  Listen to the rest of Prov. 12:4:

Proverbs 12:4 (ESV)
⁴  … but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

How do those of you who are wives avoid making your husband ashamed?  You do it by fulfilling the role in the home that God has given to you.

Ephesians 5:22-24 (ESV)
²²  Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³  For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. ²⁴  Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

It is clear from this passage that the duty of wives in the home is to submit to their husbands.  That is the role that God has given every wife.  Satan, by way of feminism, modernism, and liberalism is attacking this truth on every hand.  Nevertheless, wives, you simply cannot fulfill your role as a wife until you understand and accept your husband as your head, and submit to him.

What does it mean to be submissive?  It means to acknowledge and accept that within the context of the marriage relationship, God, in His divine wisdom, has given the husband final authority.  That is what is in view when Paul says that wives are to submit to their husbands.

I know that in our society today, it is not popular to be a submissive wife.  The world believes that the biblical idea of submission is just an attempt by men, in the name of religion, to keep women under their thumb, but this is not true at all.  While it is true that some men abuse their authority, mistreating their wives, that has nothing to do with true biblical submission.  It only demonstrates their ignorance of God’s will for their own lives.

Wives, do not drink from the godless fountain of feminism and its philosophy that says you are to share equal authority with the husband in the home.  Do not be ashamed to live by God’s plan by submitting yourselves to your own husbands.  This is the best way to build a happy home that will be blessed by God.  There is nothing insulting or degrading about accepting the final authority of your husband.  It is God’s wisdom, and the wisdom of God is far superior to the wisdom of this world.

By submitting to your husband, you are fulfilling the very purpose of your creation, that is, being a helper to your husband (Genesis 2:18).  By doing this you complete your husband, enabling him to be far better with you than without you.  When you allow God to use you in this way, you will be building a home with which God will be pleased, while doing one of the most important works that anyone, male or female, can do.

As you wind down for the night, think about these things.