Submission Volume 6

The human race was created with a yearning to submit to a higher authority. Ever since we took on the fallen nature of Adam when he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we continue to battle the urge to rebel against that authority. But there is something that is still innate in all of us to strive for something greater than where we are in life. Many times, the things that the Lord intend to do through us for His glory, the enemy interrupts by using society and the cares of this world to take us off track in order to keep us from focusing on the Will of God for our lives. If the enemy can keep us distracted and focus on our own lives, the lives we were created to live will never come to bare and the glory that God intends to receive through our vessels will not be obtained. An instance of this is being expressed greatly in the earth during this time of year. As many get ready to bring in the New Year Holiday, they start to reflect on their lives and as they wish for greater things to happen next year they start to make out their lists of resolutions. Once again to be in the world is not to be of the world, many of the resolutions that are made are vain in motivation and has no eternal value in Heaven. Our proper response during this season as we feel the calling to submit to change in our lives, is to focus on the Will and Word of God in order to pursue those changes that will bring Him glory and have eternal impact in Heaven. Today, meditate on the calling of your life, spend time in prayer asking, seeking, and knocking!!! God will give you the path to take for the New Year, not only that but He is Gracious enough to start it and complete it in you, if your heart is to please Him and bring Him Glory!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of submission on purpose!!!!!

Ecclesiastes 2

Pleasures Are Meaningless
1 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. 2 “Laughter,” I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” 3 I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.

4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem[a] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.

11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.

1 Timothy 4

1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

6 If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters,[a] you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. 7 Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8 For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. 9 This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance. 10 That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.