💃To Intoxicate To Care🙈

We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.   — Billy Graham —

Colossians 3:18 (KJV) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

 Wait a minute is the wife being told or asked to be submissive in all things?? Of course not and here’s two reasons why. Wives submit yourselves “as it is fit in the Lord.” Then in verse 19 we read 

Colossians 3:19 (KJV) Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

“Husbands, love your wives” a loving husband is not going to ask his wife to do what’s not fitting with the Lord. We read of a King in the book of Esther chapter 1 by the name of  Ahasuerus as we began to read. We read that King Ahasuerus made a feast and invited other leaders to come.  Now on the seventh day; can you imagine food and wine, all you could eat and drink and now on day 7, oh my this isn’t going to end well. 

Esther 1:10 (KJV) On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

I just don’t think this is going to end well!! What did the King command? Read it for yourselves.

Esther 1:11 (KJV) To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

No loving husband would do such. Alcohol makes you do wrong things. The King sends for his wife and he wants her to do what? I think you get the picture here. Her beauty was not just in her facial features, remember the King is asking to bring his wife into a room of men who have been drinking for a week. Now is she to be submissive to her husband's wishes? Let’s read how his wife Vashti responded to his request.

Esther 1:12 (KJV) But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: Oh my this is an awful request and the results of refusing not just her husband but the King could end in death. How did the King feel about this rejection in front of not just men but leaders? He too had been drinking for a week therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him. The point I am making is that a husband that loves his wife is not going to ask her to do such. Wait a minute I might be wrong, just the other day I saw a husband and wife and she was dressed so your eyes didn’t see her face. That was worse than King Ahasuerus was asking his wife to do. Oh that’s different, yeah I guess it is that man wasn’t drunk he knew what he was doing.