Submission Benefits

It’s only when we learn submission that we’ll experience the fullness of what God has for our lives. In other words, there are benefits with submission.

This is something we see from the life of Jesus.

It says as a child Jesus grew strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and God’s grace was upon Him (Luke 2:40). While He remained in submission to His parents, His heavenly Father blessed Him.

When Joseph and Mary took Jesus to Jerusalem for the Feast of Passover, it says that He went into the temple listening and asking questions of the teachers. Thinking Jesus had disobeyed by remaining behind, Jesus said, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” (Luke 2:49)

Jesus then left with His parents and returned to Nazareth where it says, “Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” (Luke 2:52)

Jesus knew His purpose, and He knew He had to be about His Father business, but even as the Creator (John 1:3), Jesus kept Himself in submission to the law and to those God set up as authorities in His life. In doing so, He continued to grow mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Jesus followed God’s word and obeyed His parents; those that His heavenly Father had set up in His life.

The fifth commandment in God’s top ten says, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12)

The same goes for us. We need to be in submission to those who are in authority over us if we want to reap God’s benefits.

“Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.” (Hebrews 13:17)

There are benefits to submission.