That Submission Thing

On this day in 1954, C.S. Lewis named Dickens and Tolstoy as two of his favorite authors saying that both wrote well about affection.

“All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.

God’s description of a happy family includes submission.
It is a given that all Christians are to be in submission to Christ.
In addition, Paul the Apostle in his letter to the Ephesians instructs all Christians to submit to one another.
He goes on to describe what that submission looks like.
He reminds the wife that her relationship to her husband should be guided by the given that we are all to submit to one another as to Christ and mentions that submission includes respect.
He gives the husband further instruction. In addition to submitting to Christ and other Christians, the husband is to dedicate his life specifically to the spiritual, physical and emotional welfare of his wife. (As the recipient of this sort of submission, I have no problem with the concept.)
To children, God, through Moses and the apostles, promises that the best way to “live well and prosper” is to obey your parents.

Ephesians 5: 21-33
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—“so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” (Deuteronomy 5:16)