Submitting To The Elders

Spirit & Life Devotional
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

Submitting To The Elders

"Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for 'God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.'” I Peter 5:5 NKJV

To submit is defined thus: "to accept or yield to a superior force or to the authority or will of another person." Another dictionary says that it is "to yield to the authority, control, or choice of another."

You see, submission is a choice. True, it's possible to be forced or coerced into submission, but that's not what it is in the house of God; God's will is for us to submit willingly and wholeheartedly to those who are ahead of us.

Who's a proud man? He's one who refuses to submit to authority. A proud man feels too big, too important to submit himself or herself to someone else. A proud man likes to be the one that others submit to, ignoring the fact that he must first submit himself to others before God will lift him up to a position of authority. Many men have gone to start up their own churches and businesses because they refused to submit to those they were under; but God resists the proud and He gives grace to the humble.

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