Submission

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." - Luke 22.42

Jesus, at the garden of Gethsemane, on the Mount of Olives. Just sheer hours before His betrayal. His entire life, destined for this one event. He knows very well where He is headed...the Cross. He doesn't sound too ready...yet..."not my will, but yours be done." Since Relationship at Frosh Cell, I've given the concept of submission a thought...

1 Corinthians 11.4 states that "head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God." Now. We live in a male-dominated world...or at least, a world were males get more respect than females. Sterotypes are still alive. Women are still being looked down upon. Are men more value than women? Is it because Eve was created from Adam? Was it because "the head of the woman is man"?

No. 1 Corinthanis 11.4 does not suggest importance or value, else we'd have something like God > Christ > Man > Woman. The Father is not greater than the Son...often in the Bible it says "the Father and the Son"...I can't exactly remember where, but somewhere else it says "Son and the Father"...if the Father is more important cuz He is always listed first, what about that instance where it says the Son and the Father? This is getting into tricky domain that I definately don't know enough about, but yeah. Need to read into the Trinity...

So yeah. This is about order, and not value. Christ is the model here...He said that He is able to call out and the Father will send him legions of angels to aid him. Yet He didn't. He didn't. Jesus didn't need the cross. You and I did. Submission indeed...to follow the Will of God all the way through.

It's like...the Perfect Machine. If every bit works as it supposed to, it's unstoppable. I could compare spiritual battling with hockey. It's interesting analogy actually. Maybe it'll come another time.

"All the Glory to God." - Jane Mok, CCF Program Director


It has occured to me that Event D most likely has occured already. I'm ready, but not ready. Sad, but not sad. Tired, but not tired. Well...evidently I'm not ready to handle collision events yet...