Submission?!

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[a] 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.” - Ephesian 5:22-31 (NIV)

I know what you are thinking, "Surely you are talking about some ancient concept that no one really practices anymore." However, no one seems to make the same objection when they hear the words "Servant Leadership" which can also find biblical support from the same passage. This is largely because many people stop at the first few verses and never continue on to read past verse 24. They stop at reading the instructions for wives, and fail to acknowledge that the rest of the passage is for husbands. The second half is also much more challenging in that it provides a form of leadership that is not intended for self-glory, but for the benefit of another person.

So my question to not only you but to myself as well is are you all about yourself and maximizing your own comfort, opportunity, and pleasure, or do you actively seek to serve God's purpose for the benefit of others?