Intro:
This week we will talk about how we can experience authentic relationships. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. This week’s encouraging word is all about partnering with others on our journey, and finding buried treasure in each other as we grow in our relationships. More than anything, my prayer is that we can be more aware of how we can build the relationships in our life, through being real and authentic. Sounds like the best kind of relationship to have! Here is your daily eword.
Submit to one another in love it says in Eph 5:21. I love this passage in the message Bible, it says, out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another. Richard Foster says submission is this: the ability to lay down the terrible burden of always needing to be right. I love that! Those words make me smile. I know there are lots of us who like to be right and prove it on a regular basis. Isn’t it good to know that we don’t have to be right all the time? It allows someone else to be able to lead, and it lets us set the heavy burden of being right or having the last word down. What freedom that brings! Submission to one another is a result of love. We can choose to lay down our lives, and give someone else the opportunity to take the lead. When we submit our lives to God first, then we all can easily submit to one another. Teamwork makes the Dream Work! When we partner together, and help one another, we can let go of competition and struggling to prove ourselves. We respect each other, and are happy to let someone else win. We can see our God dreams and visions come to pass! It is a win for all parties! Submission isn’t a dirty word. It really is a word, when in the context of love, that brings victory and freedom!