顺服吧
太太对我说：“你为什么不扔掉那些旧裤子呢？它们已是污渍斑斑，裤脚也磨损了，你穿起来显得很邋遢。”她的建议令我发火，因为它按了我的“悖逆键”（“悖逆键” 是我们家中常用的名词），我毫不让步固执地说：“哦，但这是我最舒服的裤子，哪管它看来怎么样？”
我发觉很多人都有一个“悖逆键。”如果我们不喜欢某人的看法，虽然他们说得合情合理，而且是礼貌并温和地表达他们的建议，我们心里仍然会抗拒。顺服，则要求我们有颗谦卑的心，然而我们往往宁愿选择固执而不肯顺服。诗篇32:9劝喻我们，“你不可像那无知的骡马，必用嚼环辔头勒住它。”
保罗为什么说“又当存敬畏基督的心，彼此顺服”呢？当然是因为虽本为神，基督“反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式”（腓立比书2:7）。祂服事门徒，为他们洗脚（约翰福音13），衪更成为死囚要被处决—为了我们。
我们的主既谦卑自己，顺服地死在十字架上，那么，我为什么仍然觉得我需要在凡事上作主，时常要操控大局，要随己意而行呢？让我们现在就从主身上，学习顺服吧。
主耶稣，祢是教会的头，我们知道祢付上性命作代价。求祢除去我心中的权力欲，赐我顺服祢和顺服别人的心。奉祢的名祈求，阿们。
以弗所书 5:21-30
21又当存敬畏基督的心，彼此顺服。22你们作妻子的，当顺服自己的丈夫，如同顺服主。
23因为丈夫是妻子的头，如同基督是教会的头；他又是教会全体的救主。
24教会怎样顺服基督，妻子也要怎样凡事顺服丈夫。
25你们作丈夫的，要爱你们的妻子，正如基督爱教会，为教会舍己。
26要用水藉着道把教会洗净，成为圣洁，
27可以献给自己，作个荣耀的教会，毫无玷污、皱纹等类的病，乃是圣洁没有瑕疵的。
28丈夫也当照样爱妻子，如同爱自己的身子；爱妻子便是爱自己了。
29从来没有人恨恶自己的身子，总是保养顾惜，正像基督待教会一样，
30因我们是他身上的肢体。
Submission
"Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." - Ephesians 5:21
"Why don't you throw away those old pants?" my wife said. "They're stained and frayed around the cuffs. They make you look sloppy." I bristled at her suggestion. It pushed my "contrary button," as we say in our family. I dug in my heels and got stubborn: "Yeah, but they're my most comfortable pants. Who cares how they look?"
I've found that a lot of people have a "contrary button." If we don't like someone's idea, even if their suggestion is reasonably, politely, and mildly expressed, rebelliousness stirs in our heart. Submission calls for humility, but we will often choose to be stubborn rather than submit. Psalm 32:9 counsels us, "Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle."
Why does Paul say, "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ"? Surely it is because Christ, though being fully God, "made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness" (Philippians 2:7). He served his disciples by washing their feet (John 13). And he died the death of a criminal—for us.
If our Lord humbled himself and submitted to death on a cross, why do I feel I should be boss all the time, always in control and getting my way? Let's learn submissiveness from him.
Lord Jesus, you are the head of the church. We know it cost you your life. Take from us any desire to lord it over anyone. Give us submissive hearts toward you and others. For your sake, Amen.
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