21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
I'm thinking mainly of Ephesians 5:20.
Before this year I had NEVER heard anyone teach this. Submit to ONE ANOTHER!! I have to submit to everyone??!!! CRAZY!! But it's such a beautiful thing and such great practice for what comes right after it:
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22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
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I've mainly been working on submission to parents! It's so easy to get caught up in the world's idea that once you move out, you don't have to listen to parents anymore. But, saved or not, they are my authority until I get married. I have to listen to them and respect them, joyfully!!, even when I totally disagree!! I've been retraining my mind in that area and our relationship is SO much better, when I just say ok, dad...ok, mom!
Roommates!! Dishes...dishwashers, cleaning anything. SUBMIT, work as if I am working for the Lord. It's so easy for me too get hung up in thinking that well they haven't done the dishes in weeks, so I don't have to! So not biblically...our pastor always says: You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours is not biblical! We have to be constantly scratching backs, no matter if we get something in return!
People think its such a crazy concept, but Christ submitted the the Father and died for us.... I think I can submit to a few people!
Rambling...I know...