COUPLES OF DESTINY IV

I have asked many people what they think submission is, and I have found that most people have been taught strong opinions, according to tradition and culture. Submission actually means to exhibit oneself. When Adam and Eve were submitted to God, they were naked. Only the glory of God covered them. They were not aware of their bodies. They walked around free not knowing what they looked like because they were God-conscious; the glory of God covered them. The reason we are not able to submit today is because we are self-conscious and self-aware. We are self-aware of our bodies and our feelings and of who we are. Self-awareness comes from the tree of knowledge. That is why we think we are ugly or beautiful, hungry or not hungry. We have knowledge of our body and what our body needs and wants and what it desires.

When I go to women’s meetings, I would say that eighty per cent of the women act totally different with their girl friends than they do with their husbands. Their husbands are not even aware of it. Wives submit their bodies, but they never really exhibit whom they are inside. For you and I to be free and exhibit who we are, we must lose our self-consciousness. We cannot live in Christ and be self- conscious. Christ has to be the center in my life.

When we challenges in our lives, we can only grow in His purpose when we can stay soft before Him. As we walk through crises in our lives, we have to let God open the areas where we have not seen His liberty and freedom. Sometimes we carry secrets about ourselves because they have left such scars that we do not have the strength to bring them out in the open. It takes the love of God working in our hearts to break down every wall that we have built around us. We can never submit to God if we have closed doors.

After Adam and Eve sinned they clothed themselves. Some of us talk about being covered. We do not need a covering if we are covered with knowledge. We only need a covering when we are naked. If we chose the covering of knowledge, we cover our shame and guilt and operate through the independence from the tree of knowledge. We know what we need and what we want and where we are going without interference from God. When our relationships are formed by what we know and by what we want and what we need, we are independent from God. We have no boundaries, and therefore, we have no possessions. Most Christian marriages are no mans land. No mans land is the land between two countries and two borders, and anyone can take control of it because it is not protected. God does not want us to be in a spiritual no mans land with spiritual fantasies and without the reality of the Spirit of God to live through us.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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