“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.” (Ephesians 5:22-23 NKJV)
God is a God of order. He hates disorder and confusion. God dwells, operates, and manifests His glory in a place of order. God commands His blessings and manifests His glory only where divine order is embraced and respected.
God waited patiently until Moses had built the Tabernacle according to the heavenly pattern revealed to him on the Mountain and finished setting and arranging all its utensils in their proper position before coming down to inhabit and fill it with His awesome glory (Exo. 25:40, 40:1-38).
Today, many homes or families are void of God’s glory, presence, and blessing because they despise, disrespect, and disregard God’s order and pattern for home or family.
According to God’s order and pattern, the husband is the head of the home.
Paul presents God’s order in the family in his epistle.
Ephesians 5:22-25 – NKJV
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.
Therefore, God’s purposes may be hindered, delayed, or frustrated in any home or family where this divine order and pattern is despised, disregarded, or set aside.
When the man or the husband who is divinely ordained, wired, configured, equipped, and strategically positioned to be the head of the home is despised, disrespected, disregarded, or displaced, the devil takes over and establishes his kingdom in the home or family.
The husband is God-ordained governing authority in the home!
The Scripture warns, “Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.” (Rom. 13:2 NKJV).
Today, many families are under the devil’s influence because they disrespect and disregard God-ordained authority in the home or family.
Today, many families are laboring, toiling, and struggling in vain due to resisting and rejecting the order or ordinance of God for the family (the husband as the head of the home).
Many challenges confronting our society today stem from either the displacement or the inefficiency of the men whom God has created, specially ordained and strategically positioned to be the head of the family, which is the building block of society.
It is families that make up our communities and cities. Whatever happens in the family does not stay within it; it flows out to the streets and cities. Every evil in our society today is an offshoot of the evil in our homes or families.
So, if we fail to deal with the foundation of evil in our families, we cannot deal with it effectively in our society. Whatever will happen to our community, good or bad, occurs first in the families that make up the society.
Therefore, it is crucial for every man or husband who has been displaced or becomes redundant as the head of his home or family to be revived, restored, and repositioned to function efficiently and effectively as the head according to God’s divine order and pattern for the family.
When godly and responsible men take their exalted position and play their unique roles as the heads in their homes, God’s presence, glory, and blessing will fill their homes and overflow their streets and cities.
The first man’s fall, Adam, resulted from his failure or inefficiency as the head of his family or home.
When the devil came around to tempt Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, it might have been a different story if Adam had accosted or confronted the devil, who subtly came to them like a serpent.
When Eve took Adam’s place in the Garden as the one whom God had put in charge, it became easy for the devil to usurp the position and authority of Adam.
Paul reveals this truth.
1 Timothy 2:14 – NKJV
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
Sadly, many wives today have also usurped the position and authority of their husbands in the home, contrary to God’s order and pattern. Consequently, the devil is reigning unhindered today in many homes and families.
Many wives never deliberately set out to usurp their husbands’ authority or responsibility but for their husbands’ failure, inefficiency, or irresponsibility.
Unfortunately, many men or husbands today are ignorant of what God expects of them as the heads of their families.
Therefore, if God’s order for the family will be fully restored in any family, the man or the husband must wake up to his God-given responsibilities as the head of the family.
Beloved, understanding your physical head’s strategic position or function in your body will give you a good clue about your position, purpose, or responsibilities as the spiritual head of your body (family).
What are the unique functions of the head in the physical body?
Find out in the second part of this piece!
Prayer: Dear Holy Spirit, open my eyes of understanding to my unique divine position and purpose as the head of my family, in Jesus’ name. Amen.