LOVE IS EGALITARIAN

Read: COLOSSIANS 3:18-23

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Bible in a year: Deuteronomy 1-2

"My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't," said someone (anonymous) on the internet. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't. The statement criticizes an authoritarian husband, who always imposes his will, always wants to control everything, and wants his wife to always submit to him.

Of course, it's not just husbands. Wives can behave that way too. Therefore, the statement above is a warning that in marriage, the relationship that exists may not be a relationship based on love, not an egalitarian relationship that recognizes equality, but a relationship filled and controlled by the desire to dominate, to control, even to make the partner an object. Clearly, that is not love at all.

The Apostle Paul advises, "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord" (verse 18). This message is often interpreted as a command for wives to submit to their husbands. People forget the next message, "Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them" (verse 19). People forget that the essence of the entire passage in Colossians 3:18-23 (including the relationship between husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant) is not about one party submitting to the other, but that all parties and relationships must submit to the Lord, the Love.

Therefore, the relationship between husband and wife should be based on love, colored by equality and justice because true love is always egalitarian, never otherwise. --EE/www.renunganharian.net

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TRUE LOVE IS ALWAYS EGALITARIAN. NEVER OTHERWISE. -O.S. RAILLE

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