The Resistance of Submission

There is something about the word “submit” that makes our flesh crawl. We hear the call to submission in the Scripture and immediately our sinful nature begins to protest and rebel.

In the N.T. the word “to submit” is a military term that carries with it the meaning “to rank oneself under.” In the word there is no connotation of inferiority of personhood, only of function. View full article »