The One Year Bible - Day 79

There is an interesting subject to draw out of Numbers 30 concerning vows. Although we could simply understand the passage to relate to vows (albeit one we would struggle to implement in today's world) we also see something about submission and authority, two massively important but equally under-taught subjects in the church. One of the reasons we might find the passage hard is that we would struggle with the idea that a husband could veto his wife's vows. This is only hard because we don't understand submission and authority. As with many of life's principles we tend to be one of two extremes. Either we understand authority as domination in which case we overplay it or otherwise we decide that submission is totally unimportant and underplay it. As with many things in life, a genuine understanding and a balance are required if we are to represent the Kingdom of God accurately.