Strong Women

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. - Colossians 3:18

Submit. This is a word that haunts many Christian women. The connotation of the word represents weakness and a comparison to a door mat. God does not want women to be door mats. He wants strong women, who live in His word and show the nurturing nature that He created them with.

As a young person, I really wish there were a different word to represent what this means. Submit is outdated, in my opinion. It may have been the right word, at a certain time, but people have given this word a bad meaning. It's very similar to the word "awful". "Awful", is actually supposed to mean something is "full of awe" which would make it good, but over time the word has changed to mean something atrocious or bad.

I'm not sure what word I would choose to replace "submit".

I might say, "Wives, become vulnerable to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord."

Or maybe, "Wives, support the ideas and goals of your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord."

Women are meant to be the perfect combination of beauty and strength.

Society, in my opinion, makes women feel bad for being a woman. It always hurt me when I was little to hear, "You throw like a girl" or "You can't play; you'd probably fall down and cry like a girl." They made me feel horrible for how I was born, so I developed a thick skin and started acting like a Tomboy.

Why don't we give girls a feeling importance? That they aren't just submissive doormats, but brilliant creations of God.

"Eve was not made from Adam's head to be above him, or from his foot to be trampled by him. She was made by his side to support him, under his arm to be cared for by him, and by his heart to be loved by him." - Joshua Harris Boy Meets Girl