Submit to God- Resist the Devil.

Submit…  to GOD.  Do we submit to God? What's it mean to submit to God. How can YOU personally submit to God?  Do you yield your power to God? You do have a power of your own and that is the power of choice. You choose, God does NOT choose for you. If God chose for us it would be HIS choosing and He might as well have made us simple robotic without any will of our own at all whatsoever. We choose and we choose often, we choose constantly.  Our decision to submit to God is a constant choice as well. How simple would it be for us to make a choice once and never go back on that choice. But we are creature of different choices often. Some people are very rigid in their inability to choose anything other than what they are familiar with, however we deem them as anomalies, not average. How often today are we face to face with people making serious choices and then changing those choices, even ones they've considered final.

Getting back to submitting to God- do we yield our power to God? We have power simply by existing and that power to choose to give ourselves to God is yielding that power to Him. We yield any authority we may think we possess, to God- we want Him to be our authority!

Do you want God to be your authority, or are you like so many others proud to say you are the boss of yourself. We take so much pride in being in control of ourselves, making our own decisions and in truth we shouldn't. That pride we are talking about is in direct contradiction to our submitting to God.  If we lay claim to control we are not allowing God to control. We cry out in happiness, "Look what I did!" All the while forgetting that we only did whatever it was, because God allowed us to. Truly all glory goes to God!

Do we submit? Do we yield our authority to God? Do we give God the control of our lives to lead us in His way? This truly is something we need to contemplate, to pray on, to study more.

Resist…  the DEVIL.    Do you resist the devil?  How do you resist the devil?

The Greek definition for resist--

ἀνθίστημι

anthistēmi

Thayer Definition:

1) to set one’s self against, to withstand, resist, oppose

2) to set against

Do we SET OURSELVES AGAINST THE DEVIL?!

Do we WITHSTAND the DEVIL?

Do we RESIST the DEVIL?

Do we OPPOSE the DEVIL?

How do we do this?  More tomorrow by the GRACE and MERCY of our LORD and SAVIOR!!!!! JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD! NOW AND FOREVER! AMEN!

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Draw nigh… to GOD.

Cleanse… your hands.

Purify… your hearts.

Be… afflicted.

Mourn.

Weep.

Humble… yourself in the SIGHT of the LORD.

HE- the LORD- will lift us up!

Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 

Jas 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 

Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up