1 Corinthians says: “To submit to such people and to everyone who joins in the work and labors at it.”
Also Peter the Apostle said: “In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’”
In the epistle to Hebrews we are exhorted to: “Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.”
The most important submission is to God: “But He gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
If we do not submit and surrender fully to God there can be no victorious Christian life for us. By submitting to the Heavenly Father and asking Him to bring the victory, the conflict is won. For Christ is the victor. “But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Jesus not only has freed us from the penalty of sin but He has also freed us from the power of sin.
May we learn afresh the godly discipline of submission as we gather under the Headship of Jesus Christ.