Touching Godliness Through Submission by K. P. Yohannan

Author:K. P. Yohannan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religious Aspects, Psychology, Christian Life, Authority, Christianity, Religion, Submissiveness - Religious Aspects - Christianity, Biblical Teaching, Personal Growth, Submissiveness, Personality
ISBN: 9781595890559
Publisher: GFA Books
Published: 2008-12-29T22:00:00+00:00

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Godly Examples of Submission

God has given us the Bible to show us how we should live.1From beginning to end, it is full of stories of those who have gone before us. These records give us a very tangible look at submission, something that we can actually follow.

It would be like I invited you to my home for dinner. I’d give you directions to my place that explained where to turn and the landmarks you would see. But then something happens. The time comes for you to arrive, but you haven’t shown up. My wife has cooked a nice meal, and now the food is starting to get cold.

I’m wondering what’s happened, so I pick up my phone and call your cell. “Where are you?” I ask. Glad to hear my voice, you tell me you are lost and can’t find the right road. But as you describe your surroundings, I figure out exactly where you are. So I say, “Good. I got it. Wait right there. I’m coming.”

I get in my car, and before long, I find you. “Sorry for all the trouble,” I say. “Just keep your eyes on my 1962 yellow Volkswagen Bug and follow me back to my house.”

So now you don’t have to look at the map or the street signs. You just need to concentrate on the back of my little car. I lead and you follow, and within 10 minutes of making all the right turns, this way and that, we drive up to my house.

“Oh, that was easy,” you say.

Why was it easy? Because all you had to do was follow.

The Apostle Paul told the Corinthians, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1, NIV). If you want to learn the ways of God, if you want to touch godliness, if you want to avoid sin and disaster, go to the Bible and read about the people God has given to us as examples. Follow their successes and avoid their failures.

There are many individuals in Scripture who truly demonstrated what it means to submit to authority in spite of suffering and loss. Let’s study the lives of just a few of these people.

Mighty Man of God

Paul, the Apostle2—from a distance, he may come across as a self-made man who doesn’t bend before anyone or anything. But that’s really far from the truth. Paul was a broken, humble man who learned to live a life of submission before both God and man. And this was the key to God committing Himself to Paul.

Before he was the Apostle, he was Saul of Tarsus—a Pharisee, and as for legalistic righteousness, he was faultless.3 He was of the highest caste in society with both financial backing and a great education. Self-righteous, he was convinced that he was doing the right thing by killing Christians and opposing this Christ everyone was talking about.

But then on the road to Damascus, he met Jesus Christ Himself. There he was struck down with a bright light, and he heard those words, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? .

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