The Pursuit Of Purpose 3

Ladies and Gentlemen, hello and thank you so much for your support. I hope these posts are doing some good in your lives as they are in mine.

I apologize for the delay in the continuation of the series, I've had to deal with an injury to my foot, but have come back strong and ready to dish out some more from Jehovah.

Right, now in TPOP 2 we have dealt with the introduction to the importance of submission and its fundamental place in one's life, work, and ultimately, everywhere where you are not the highest authority.

Now the question here is, just how hard is submission to execute? Is it that kind of thing that is so hard that we shy away from it and decide to avoid it as best we can?

Actually, submission isn't as hard as we make it out to be. Instead it's selective submission that draws us to look at it as next to impossible.

Here are a few examples:

• Steven calls his younger brother John, and tells him that he is hungry and thinks they should go out to the mall and have lunch at MAXIS's. John agrees that they should have lunch but suggests John Dory's instead. Steven says, "It's cool and will come pick him up in 10 minutes. John says, "Fine, I will be ready"

• You walk into Nedbank and stand at 'inquiries'. A friendly lady 'service champion' comes to you and asks why you are there. You say you want to open an investment account. She then tells you to come out of that queue and go to another one that leads to consultants who deal directly with that.

In both instances, submission can be seen everywhere. John submitted to Steven's request for lunch but then Steven submitted to John's choice of restaurant instead of his own. John then submitted to the amount of time he had to prepare himself.

At Nedbank, you don't even stand and have a 10 minute conversation with the lady about why you should leave the queue, instead you go out of the queue with no questions and await your turn where she directed.

• Lastly, I heard the story of a lady (we'll call her Sarah) who was engaged to a man (we'll call Abram) who simply didn't want her to have a tattoo, particularly where she wanted to put it. Sarah was quite unwilling to heed to this request and planned to do it anyway. They were planning to get married and this was a problem for Abram because she wouldn't listen. 

• She then applied for a job at a company that had strict rules about what you wear and tattoos weren't allowed to be shown. Where she wanted it was going to be in plain sight and very quickly decided against it for the sake of her desired company.

You see, we become stubborn thinking that submission is a loss of your will power to do something you want to do, and yet it comes naturally to us. She chose to submit easily to the company but not to fiance Abram who wanted the same thing. So what makes submission hard?

Here it is:
Submission is easy when you see that you will benefit more than if you choose otherwise. It becomes difficult when you think of it as losing your way when in many cases, losing your way is actually the best way.

The Lord God Almighty shows us the way that we SHOULD go and from it we will benefit more than anyone else can predict. The Nedbank lady knew more about what you wanted than you did and took you to a place you will get there quicker; the right place, the right person, the right time. God knows more than even her...so why not submit to Him as a matter of habit?

On the next post...
The Knowledge Factor of submission in purpose.
Stay Tuned...

TGBTG!
The Messenger