SUBMISSION?

One question leads to another. My post on discipline made me ponder on this word: submission.
What does it mean to you? Why do I hear me friends talk about submitting to God. Submitting to someones decision?

Mmm...First, I wana share my gut feeling. For me submission suggests a power struggle. I give in to you. But I do it by giving up what I want to do. That is submission.

So why do we talk about submission to God?

Because..when we believe, we follow. We are drawn. We have an unstoppable desire to do what God calls us to do.

So submission doesn't quite figure.....

So, let me think about this.

I wana say that Jesus , for me , did not submit.

He knew what he had to do for the Father, and for Salvation. He saw the contradictions in the practices and teachings of some of the leaders . And He said what he had to say. Come what may.

I remember that he drove traders out of the Temple grounds.

" My Father's House is a House of Prayer for all Nations...but you have made it into a den of thieves..."

How did Jesus know then about a world view that includes "all nations" ?

For me , this is the moment of timelessness. Of bordelessness.

So what do you think..?