Quotes about Submission

Pray that in the large things and small things, whenever He asks me to "give it up for Him," no matter what He asks of me, I will respond immediately, "Yes, Lord!

Yahweh doesn't owe us an explanation for what He does. He's sovereign over all: 'Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?... If he comes along and confines you in prison... who can oppose him?' So you see? I don't need to know why anymore.

A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn't quit until the job is done.

but he knew that Hashem revealed His will through His Word. The way to find answers was through obedience to that Word.

Submission is 'ducking low enough so God can touch your husband.

If we let it, unglued will allow us to become humbly and beautifully broken before Him.

Obedience is the daily practice of trusting God.

If our souls never ached with disappointments and disillusionments, we'd never fully admit and submit to our need for God. If we weren't ever shattered we'd never know the glorious touch of the Potter making something glorious out of dust, out of us.

The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

And I know I can't continue to fully embrace God while rejecting His ways.

doesn't it all come down to that? Trust. Trading our will for "Thy will," because we know He will.

An interesting fact about the Garden of Gethsemane is that it sits at the base of a known escape route from the city over the Mount of Olives toward the Judean desert. This is the route David took when running from his son Absalom. Jesus would have known this. But instead of running, He turned to His Father and said nine hell-shattering, demon-shaking, Devil-killing words: "Yet not what I will, but what you will" (Mark 14:36).