“For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.” 1 John 5:3
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Submission is not a well liked word. To be submissive is a term that has been distorted because there are men who have used the word as a weapon to club their wives rather than as a hammer to build their homes. God tells the wife to submit to her husband, He also tells the husband to love his wife (Ephesians 5:22-25). When God tells children to obey their parents, He also instructs the fathers to "provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4). God tells you to submit to Him, it is for your good (James 4:7). Jesus is the head of the church, and He leads by love. The same should be true in the home. It is not a word apply to only a certain group of people. God asks all believers to submit their entire life to His will and not just an area of their lives. Some people have no trouble letting God in, as long as He doesn’t interfere with in all their dealings. “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (1 Peter 5:5). Submission requires humility. One cannot submit to God without humility. Obedience requires us to humble ourselves and to surrender to the authority of another, and we are told that God resists pride; therefore, having a humble and submissive heart is a choice we the believer must make.
When we accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior, we were equipped with all the provisions we need, in Christ, to become a mature believer, and a good soldier in the army of the Lord, but we have to make the choice to learn about those provisions through study of the Word and to apply those provisions to our daily walk. The believer’s journey of faith is ongoing. It stops when the Lord returns. You have the obligation to study and meditate the word of God because faith comes by hearing (repetitive) the word of God. Accepting Christ is by no means the end, it is the beginning of the journey. You have got to keep walking and growing. As a matter of fact, you ought to be growing, when one stops growing, one dies. God is a loving Father. He does not ask us to submit to His will as a punishment. He asks us to submit in order for us to benefit from His infinite wisdom. When we humble ourselves He makes it His responsibility to watch over us, and to keep us in His loving care. Learning to depend upon God is learning humility. Submitting to God is true obedience. The purpose for humbling us is to teach us to trust and obey; so that, we may know God and be able to experience all the love that He has for us. When God has trained us to trust and obey, He will then be able to bless us with many blessings (Deuteronomy 8:16).
The humble person does not trust in himself, but he trust in the Lord and he learns to trust and obey God all the time and when trouble arises he does not worry because he knows that God cares for him and knows that God is always in control because submit to God’s will also involved submitting all of our fears and trouble to His capable hand.
Praise the Lord!
