In the August edition of Roads & Bridges, David Matthews looks at the finer points of driving according to “God’s law.”
In case you missed it, a woman was recently taken to court after she lead police on a three-mile chase down the Ohio turnpike after they tried to pull her over for breast-feeding her seven-month-old child – while driving.
Her defense – her husband told her to. Apparently driving and breast-feeding would save time.
Why the three-mile chase? She was waiting for instructions from her husband and he told her to only pull over in a public area with witnesses.
What if her husband said to jump off a bridge? According to the First Christian Fellowship – she’d have to.
The church strongly teaches that the husband is the head of the household and is given control over his wife’s actions — and held responsible for them.
Therefore, remaining true to his faith, Barnhill insisted at his wife’s trial that he should be tried for her actions. Donkers was convicted anyway, but this past April those convictions were overturned due to mistakes made by lower court judges. There is no word yet on how the judges’ husbands will be punished.
I wonder what leads people to that kind of self-sacrifice that they will only do what another person tells them to. What leads a woman (or man) to believe they have no control over themselves? It seems to me that they turn into robots at that point.
Yet, how many times do we read in Scripture that we are to give control of ourselves over to God and His will – and still we fight and fight and fight for control.
Here’s a woman who has given full control and responsibility to her husband, yet I have trouble letting go of things and giving control to the Creator of the Universe. The Alpha and Omega. The Great I Am.
I think this woman may have misdirected her faith – but she’s maybe she can teach us a lesson on what it means to fully surrender to God.
1 Peter 2:11-12 “Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.“
