The Two Kinds of Submission

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."

Galatians 5:1

  You must learn to distinguish between the two kinds of submission. There is submission to superior force, and there is submission to superior truth. The former is a demonstration of weakness, while the latter is proof of strength. The first exists by compulsion, while the second exists by choice. Submission to superior force is the definition of slavery, while submission to superior truth is the definition of freedom.

   If you were raised in a strict religious home, you were probably indoctrinated with the quiescent notion that it was wrong to question God, and it was right to accept your lot in life as the will of God. This false teaching—even after you grow out of and away from it—still affects the way you see the world. However, when you consider the circumstances of the masses of Black People, you cannot believe that what we have endured under Eurocentric racism for nearly 400 years could possibly be the will of God.

   Your mantra related to submission must be one of freedom  and not of slavery. You cannot be a free moral agent who rules the mini-universe where you are the center, and be in submission to domination by another at the same time. 

   Your submission to superior truth calls you to revolutionary struggle—i.e., manifesting thoughts of liberty, social justice, and fullness of life for Black People of the I AM.

   Jesus never calls disciples and tells them to submit to Him. He asks them to abide, stay with, be closely-associated with Him if—and only if—they decide to become disciples. The relationship is one of equality that is built upon free choice and abiding, not submitting. It is easier for most people to remain slaves than to struggle to be free. Freedom requires personal responsibility and Thought—too much work for most people.

   The secret to your progress of transformation, expansion, and evolution is premised on your developing a habit of submission; but submission to superior truth, not to superior force.

   When you gain access to a higher truth, you will be required to rearrange the lower truths you already possess. You do not abandon lower truths, you just take them off the top shelf of your thinking and place them on a lower shelf. Truth is truth, but higher truth takes precedence over lower truth.

   The process of letting go the lower for the higher truth will cause you some discomfort. It may seem that just when you get comfortable with a truth that is higher than what you held previously, another higher truth comes into your life requiring that you acknowledge its higher value and internal placement. This is called growth. Failure to grow is the cause of arrested development—a malady that you want to avoid at all cost.

   The Universal Principle related to this state of affairs is that the lesser degree of life must be swallowed up by the greater. You must accept that the smaller or lesser degree was only a partial and limited aspect of that which is more universal.

   Submission, in this context, means your intelligent recognition of the true nature of your own internal forces and of the laws by which your robust constitution must be built. Thus, your submission is no longer to limitations which drain you of your “aliveness” and against which you instinctively rebel.

   Instead, your submission is to the law of your own evolution which manifests itself in continually increasing degrees of life and strength. In the end, submission is the price you pay to expand. Your own growth requires that you submit to yourself.