Marsha's Musings: Reflections on Sunday's Sermon

1. All that I do as a wife, mom, homemaker, volunteer, home-school teacher is to be done with Christ in mind...all to the glory of God.
2. I can submit to my husband's authority and any other authority in my life by looking past him to Christ. I am submitting to Christ not my husband or other authority in my life. Looking at submission in this way, helps me with my attitude when my human nature is not wanting to submit and it helps me to submit as God has commanded I should.
3. What circumstances am I in? God has placed me there. Whether my circumstances are good or bad, God has a good purpose for them.
4. God cares about how I respond to my circumstances and that I respond in a godly manner.
5. What is my calling? It's right now. It's where God has placed me at the moment. My calling is to be a wife, mom, homemaker, patient, volunteer, listener, etc with a view to honoring God in all I do. This means watching my attitude, tongue and heart at all times.

Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. 18 ¶ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Colossians 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

1Peter 2:13 ¶ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Romans 13:1 ¶ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: