Submission Volume 4

Our Lord and Savior is such a great leader, in the sense that we all know a great leader leads by example. A great leader will not ask you to do something he or she is not willing to do themselves. As we continue to look at the precious life of our Savior Jesus Christ we will see another time when He submitted against His own Will to follow the Will of His authority. When we are young God gives us loved ones that are to guide us and mold us to grow into strong vessels for His glory. During this time of upbringing we are subject to those authorities that have been placed in our lives. Many times as we grow, we wish to do our own will but it has to be in accordance with the approval of our authority. We have learned through the scriptures that obedience is better than sacrifice. God has a plan for all of our lives and in each season of life He is taking us through a process of maturity and growth that will aide in our ability to be conformed to His Son. As we see Jesus as a small boy, we can see Him learning these lessons of submission that will one day fulfill the purpose of His mission. As we learn in each season the lessons the Lord places in front of us in the form of submission, we come ever closer to the place He wishes to take us!!! Have we learned the lessons from those early years or are we still being taught those lessons today in the endless cycle of rebelling and then conforming??? Our Father is in no rush and will not allow us to press forward until we learn the lessons of submission as we ought to, look at the children of Israel in the wilderness!!! Have a wonderful life of submission on purpose!!!!!

Luke 2

The Boy Jesus at the Temple
41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”

49 “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”[f] 50 But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

51 Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.