This week for Lent: SUBMISSION If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life... Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.” (Philippians 2: 1-4 The Message, by Eugene Peterson) Submission invites us to humble, open, mutually dependent relationship with God and with one another. We accept our place as servants of God, not masters of our own destiny. We relish being both learner and teacher, leader and follower, creators of vision and those who do the ordinary work of carrying it out... -Kai Nilsen, Renovaré USAs Lenten Devotional, Engage How will you begin this season of Lent practicing the discipline of submission?
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:52:45 +0000