FloridaRely's JumboTweets
- I think it is a lie that wives are mere reactors who helplessly do nothing or little more than "react" to their husbands like a foot jerking in response to a tap on the knee.
This impoverished and, in fact I might venture to say toxic, idea seems very unfortunately taught by some in Christendom who perhaps don't yet know better and among them those who have been taken in by faulty secular philosophies.
Instead the Bible I read seems to bestow great dignity and responsibility to wives and women in general as moral actors who make choices in and of themselves.
Women can walk in obedience to Christ or they can sin. Wives can bless their husbands or alternately can, to their own detriment, act in ways that are harmful and wrong. Wives can lovingly build up and bless their husbands or can report at the end of life that their chief accomplishment in marriage was to have maintained fierce independence and avoided being his "puppet". (And how tragically misshapen and broken a marriage that looks like the latter.)
Some who purport to teach or even "counsel" today portray wives as entirely or primarily reactive mirrors and the shallowness of a physical mirror shows how poor an idea this really is. The Bible as I understand it today shows that wives have a much more wonderful and weighty place in the Kingdom: they can through desire and captivation with God, and resulting obedience to Him, grow more and more in the likeness of the glorious, astounding beauty of Christ.