The Eighteen-Wheeler and the Volkswagen

MANY women have a problem with submission because they think, “But I am smarter than my husband. I make more money than my husband. I am more educated than my husband. I have more common sense than my husband.

I can’t submit to him.” Well, let’s suppose an eighteen-wheeler is trying to merge onto the freeway. Let’s also assume that the Volkswagen is coming down the expressway so it has the right-of-way. The eighteen-wheeler has to yield.

Now, the eighteen-wheeler may have more clout than the Volkswagen, but the Volkswagen has the right-of-way. Can the eighteen-wheeler say, “Because I have more than you have, you stop on the highway and let me on”? If there is an accident, it is the eighteen-wheeler that is going to be at fault, because even though it’s got more stuff, it is operating illegitimately. Submission has nothing to do with how much you bring to the table.

Submission has nothing to do with how much education, how much clout, or how much notoriety a woman has; it has to do with God’s ordained role.