Submission

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Submission Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Ephesians 5, 21. Normally in today's world, we are told to strive for the top. The desire to be number one overshadows the biblical injunction of submission.

But when we are truly in a right relationship with God, we will submit one to another. Christ taught that servanthood was of much greater value in the eyes of God than mastery. We all know too many examples of churches that have been split by conflicts arising from believers' selfishness or an unwillingness to serve. From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

A spirit-filled Christian desires to submit and serve rather than to assert and rule. The same thought is reflected throughout Scripture. 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. Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls. we must also submit to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake.

The word submit is a translation of two Greek words meaning to line up under. It usually reflects a military hierarchy to rank lower than. Our goal, therefore, should be to place others above ourselves and to submit to and serve them. This attitude, of course, Christ exhibited as he left heaven to come, serve, and die, who took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Philippians two, seven and eight.

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