The Right Habit 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

  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.

   If you have grasped the fact of your identity with the All-Originating Spirit of God, then you will discover that submission cannot exist for you. Submission is always to the power of another, and you are One. I wrote above that you must submit to yourself, but in actuality, it is impossible for you to do so because you are One. So, what was my point in raising with you that erroneous notion?

   My rationale was to draw you logically to the conclusion that what you may have believed about submission in the past is inapplicable in your life now. 

   It is a universal rule that Nature obeys you exactly in proportion as you obey Nature. This is only to say that the issue left for you to decide is whether you will yield an ignorant submission to the principle of Death, or an intelligent obedience to the principle of Life.