"but he shall rule over you."

Wow. I've read that verse from Genesis chapter 3 a lot of times before, but those words really stuck out to me when I read them again recently. It is as certain as childbirth pain.

I've given birth to four babies - two without epidurals. I prayed that God would lessen the pain and I think He completely "ignored" my plea. The pain!!! The Anguish!!! Dreadful. Abhorant.

In the Genesis passage, God promises childbirth pain and that our husband's will rule over us wives. The pain!!! The Anguish!!! And yes I suppose dreadful as well. Abhorant.

Well, if it IS going to happen, as sure and natural as childbirth pain, I mine as well get with the program, after all, going along with God's plan is in my best interests.

So, as I spoke with my husband today, I saw him through the eyes of this reality. In the past few years I have seen my husband's spiritual eyes opened. I think that even today my husband perceived my efforts to align myself to his plans because I wanted to follow His plan for my life. I know Brad appreciated it.

God is working in ways I can not see, whispering to me in His words of faith. When Sarah followed Abe all the way into Pharoah's camp, calling him her master, God protected her and honored her. I Peter 3 speaks of Sarah as a holy woman of old that trusted God and did what was right, trusting God. She served her husband and trusted God, not actually "trusted" her husband, per say. I want to do the same.