“Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” 1 Peter 5:5
In the true sense, submission will not restrict us or deprive us, but rather it will greatly enlarge us. Adam and Eve greatly deprived themselves and their posterity by not being submissive in the Garden of Eden.
We will never know what we are missing until we obey God’s Word on being submissive. It allows for the greater things to be made possible in life, while overruling the impetuous. Submission allows the space we need to become considerate, wise, and well advised in what we are and do.
It is not the way of human nature to be submissive. It requires self-denial and deliberate faith to successfully undertake this virtue. Submission is a form of perfection. It takes us beyond just doing what we want to do, unto coming to understand and do what we should do.
Thus, submission should be made incorporate in our Christian character by faith and conviction. Without it, we will sow to the flesh and of the flesh reap corruption.
Submission does not render us despicable, but rather makes us respectable. To recognize in another that they are not enslaved to self-centeredness, stubbornness, temper, and unreasonableness will cause you to admire and respect them. People who demonstrate that they have the capacity to defer to the position of another while remaining in full control of themselves are known to be a person of strength and ability.
God has commanded that submission be employed where responsiveness unto His preachers and teachers are concerned: Hebrews 13:7,17. We all need what submission unto the preaching of God’s Word allows for. We need the disposition that will allow for our way to give way to God’s way. We need the subjectiveness that will permit the Holy Spirit to convict us of God’s will instead of our will. Apart from submission, we will just remain deadlocked against anything and everything except just doing what is right in our own eyes.
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 16:25 Are you with, or without the needed benefits of submission?
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