Submit???? Who me????

Here I go with my first ever blog post!!!

As the title says Submit? Who me? Why do that and make life easy?

Why do we, okay, especially me dislike the word submit so much?   What is it that makes us me do everything I can to avoid it, when it would make my life and everyone’s around me so much easier if I would give in the first time.  I keep telling myself I don’t give in the first time because I have to make sure it is God really talking, then I come up with another excuse….and another….and another, you get my point.  That is where I am now, I have been hearing the words write something, think about this (whatever the subject might be), however, instead of listening and discerning what God is saying to me I just keep turning on the television, the ipod, talking on the telephone, change the book I’m reading, anything I can to avoid “hearing” so that I don’t have to submit.  The one great thing is God doesn’t let me go.  There are times He will let me miss the boat on something just so I can set back and think….if only I had listened and did what he told me to.  Maybe it is the authority thing?  Again though, life would go much easier if I would SUBMIT to His authority.  He is the perfect Father, not like the one I’ve had here on earth, so I should  not treat Him as such. 

Although I don’t care much for Steve Carell I really enjoyed the movie Evan Almighty.  There were several things that spoke to me in that movie, and there are two lines that spoke very loud and have stayed wih me.  One of them is when Steve Carell’s character keeps ignoring God’s (played my Morgan Freeman) instruction and continues to try to live his life his way. Steve Correl wakes up dressed and looking like Moses, then he shaves the beard and changes the clothes only for them to go right back to the Moses look. Finally they are standing in the Congressional room and Morgan Freeman looks over at Steve Carell and says something like “how long do you want to keep doing this, I have all of eternity?”

God has His own time frame but He isn’t going to force  me.  He will take His time and when He sees I’m just not going to follow Him and submit to His will on the matter He just moves on, not away from me but like I said He isn’t going to force it.  Sometimes He lets me see what I’ve missed and other times I don’t see it…at least now.  I wonder what it is going to take for me to learn?  Will I ever learn?  At least I’m finally writing something, maybe three years after I first heard it from Him, but I’m doing it.  Now let’s see if I will ever figure out why He wants me doing this.

 Has there been a time when you finally listened to Him and then wished you hadn’t fought Him so long on it?

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