Submission Unto the Lord

"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord."  Ephesians 5:22

The word submission means “to put in subjection under.”  The command is given by the Lord to the wife and not by the husband to the wife.  She is to place herself in subjection under her husband’s headship, neither because he says so nor because he has earned it, but because the Lord has commanded it.  This is made clearer by the fact that a woman is to submit herself to her own husband and not to any other man.  She is to do this “as to the Lord” and you could compare this with those who visit, feed, and clothe the poor with Jesus’ teaching, “inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me” (Matt 25:40).  When she renders godly, Spirit-filled submission to her husband, she is doing it unto her heavenly Father.