Submission Volume 3

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has shown us the most ultimate act of submission when He chose to follow our Father’s Will and became flesh and blood in order to fulfill the scriptures and to pay the penalty for sin for all mankind. Let us think about this for a minute, we many times casually glance over the start of our Lord’s life by saying yeah He was the baby in the manger, but what did it take for Him to get there? It took a heart that so loved His Father that He would sacrifice His own life in order to save a chosen people that rebelled against His Father (Jews) and a people, who up unto that point, was never to know the blessedness of an intimate relationship with His Father (Gentiles). Here is a Son who the whole earth and everything therein was created through Him. He has all power in His hand and saw the point when Lucifer was cast down to the earth. Many of us would have a FIT if our supervisor came and asked us to do the same work we are performing today at a quarter less the pay than what we are making. Here is God’s Son, not coming to be King to reign over all the earth, at least not at this time, but comes to be a servant and sacrifice to all mankind. All of this was preordained and recognized by the son before He ever entered the womb. He knew that he would be separated from His Father during the period of punishment He had to endure!!! Yet His perfect submission reconciled man to God and so we celebrate His beautiful birth each year. Looking at the lives of Mary, Joseph, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we can see that obedience to our Heavenly Father is the truest form of Love towards Him, “If you Love me you will keep my commandments”!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of submission on purpose!!!!!

John 1

The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and[b] is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.