Day 44 – A Matter of Attitude

1. 2. 3. As you study the biblical concept of
submission, one of the most important things
to learn is that God wants us to have a
submissive attitude. He does not want us to
submit with resentment, resignation or
bitterness. He does not want our submission
to be legalistic. He wants it to come from the
heart because of our trust in him, because of
our confidence that he honours submission.
Submissiveness was an attitude found in
Jesus. Read about it in Philippians 2:5-9. How
do we see submissiveness in Jesus?
Again read about Jesus’ submissive attitude
in 1 Peter 2:13-21 (note particularly the first
part of v.13, the first part of v.18, and v.21).

5. 6. Once we realize that Jesus Christ was the
perfect model of submissiveness, we realize
that submissiveness does not mean certain
things. It does not mean: a). lack of
conviction, b). silence, c). violating your
conscience, d). weakness, e). inferiority.
Instead submissiveness, as we see it in
Jesus, does mean: a). surrender of self-
interest, b). yielding of personal rights in order
to benefit others, c). trusting God. Some
people think submit means to do nothing, but
we see in Jesus’ life that submission meant
trusting God and that is hardly “nothing”.
In view of what we see in Jesus, which
Christians should be submissive?
Ultimately, to whom are we to be submissive?
Read James 4:7-8

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