Thursday, August 8, 2013

Be What? . . . . . Submit part 3

Klyne says, “In the end submission is nothing more than a decision about relative worth of another person, a manner of dying and rising with Christ, and a way to respect and love other people.”

The value or worth we see in the other person can be an indicator of our willingness to submit or not.  But you know what a great indicator is?  The statement of how do we see our own relative worth?  How valuable do we see ourselves, our identity?

That’s why our identity is so important and why submission is so difficult.  If we are striving for value and worth in a relationship we may not humble ourselves, because we need to prove that we are right, powerful, in charge, accepted, enough. 

Or if we are striving for worth in a relationship we may arrange ourselves under the other person, but it is more as a doormat or a victim in order to feel some semblance of love from the other person, even if it is unhealthy.

But if we know, at the core of who we are, that we are chosen and beloved, and that we don’t have to go chasing for the value.  We know we have relative worth based upon what Christ has done.  Then we can freely arrange ourselves under someone else and love and respect them.  Because their acceptance or mutual submission isn’t defining who we are, or our value.  That’s already taken care of, by God’s transformative work.

One of the action steps this week was to take a look at your core and see how you see your value in God’s eye?  Do you see yourself as beloved and chosen?  Or are you still chasing after that belovedness and choseness?  If so, before you can redefine submission you need to start at your own value.  Take some time today and meet with God, quiet yourself and ask him how much he values you.


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