Submission

 

Submission

Submission to the will, of Him who loves me still,
is surety of his love revealed.
My soul shall rise above this world in which I move;
I conquer only when I yield.

Words matter.  Who has the power when you are submitting?

Submission

the action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person.

Acceptance

the action or process of being received as adequate or suitable by another.

They sound the same but there is a significant difference between submission and acceptance. Submission is interior focused. You are submitting to an external force that is superior to yours.  Acceptance is externally focused. You are being received as adequate by a force that is external.

If you change and perceive that the external force is no longer superior to you, then you could no longer submit. If you are accepted by an external force and that force does not change, then you are still accepted even if you have changed.

If you submit to an absolute, then you can revoke that submission. If you are accepted by an absolute, then that acceptance will not be revoked. Presumably, the absolute understands how you might change and that was considered in the acceptance. While you might change, that absolute does not change.

The subject has the power. You submit. You are the subject. You are accepted. You are the object.

If you believe that God is an absolute, has the power, and is unchanging , then you don’t submit to God. You ask to be accepted by God and if you are worthy, then God accepts you.

Beware those "evangelicals" who have submitted to Jesus.  They are implictly saying that they believe that they can be more powerful than Jesus.  Trust only those that have asked to be, and were, accepted by Jesus.