Don't Bother the Driver

I (Dan) remember sitting behind my dad in the back seat of the car. I would sometimes stick my feet on the back of the seat in front of me. It would usually take a total of not more than two bumps and I would here these words, “Don’t bother the driver!” I could never figure out how just a little bump was such a big deal…but I had to submit to my father’s request.

Fast forward many years and I am the driver. The infant car seat is positioned right behind me. As the kids grew and their feet extended beyond the shrinking car seat I shouldn’t have been surprised when they began to kick at the back of my seat. Now I understood my father’s words.

In the Christian’s life we are called to submit to one another and to Christ. Don’t be foolish, understand what the Lord’s will is and then do that. Submission…so I bet you guessed that word would come up some place in a devotional book on Ephesians. Nobody likes to submit—we’d rather do whatever we want to do—and that’s the problem. What if what I want to do bothers someone else? Scripture says, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.” How do you do that? The only way to submit to others is to submit to the Holy Spirit and His will for your life. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Submitting to God and others is hard work. Let’s take some lessons from this week’s stories on submission and learn how to live in the unity God desires for His Church. 

—Pastor Dan