Bend the Knee (Blog Post)

One thing you may have noticed about me, if you've been following for a while, is that I won't beat a dead horse a matter, really.

We often see, on social media if we follow someone for a while, that they harp on one or two subjects over and over again, and that's the point, right?

They have their subject matter and they talk about it often, but I won't usually write on something unless I have a prompting to write on it. Once it's been said, it's been said. And I don't feel the need to write on it again, unless I have that prompting.

We all know that we want to be better men. And we're always looking for new ways and hot takes to find that hidden spark that will be the final thing we need to push ourselves over the edge and into this idealized way of being.

The hope that the work is done and we are that way forever.

Well, that won't happen until we die and fully in Christ in eternity.

So there will be a constant striving towards betterment.

And maybe I do need to be reminding you, and myself, constantly of the things that we need to be doing to make ourselves better.

But even that, the making of oneself better constantly, isn't the goal.

I think overarchingly it is, but the goal should be a constant bend towards submission, which no one wants to hear.

As men, we want to be in control. And far be it from us to give up our control in such a way that we are intimately submitted to another man in Jesus.

For some of us, this is easy. Our stories dictate a sense of helplessness, or a deep longing for masculine assistance because we've seen the fruit from it as children through our relationship with our fathers.

Others, and I've seen it time and time again, find it difficult because men in authority have failed them. That makes it much harder to submit to this idea of submitting itself.

Shifting gears here, think about the Sermon on the Mount. We look at that as a template to live, right? And all of it is about a surrendering to a new way of being that the world say is weak.

Already it goes against our nature to be "poor in spirit" or "pure of heart", two things that look like we are saying to our enemies, do what you will.

It would be one thing if this list was given to us a by a teacher who couldn't accomplish these things himself, but were only ideologies of a new way of living, but that's not what we get.

What we get is Jesus, the Son of God, living these truths, and cementing Himself in this place of ultimate authority by dying, resurrecting, and ascending into Heaven where we come to a realization that if the teacher did it, then so can we, but not without His help.

So, we arrive back at this notion of submitting.

And thankfully we don't submit to a guru with wild, yet interesting ideas, but a King who lived out what He said He would because He created, not only the template to live by, but living altogether.

So, if I were to harp on anything, it would be that.

The workouts, the emotional control, the daily habits that align with better health and better servanthood and leadership in the home, all of things are good and should be communicated often, but what we really need to focus on is reminding ourselves daily who we are.

And that is the fact that we are creatures, created in the Image of God, sinful, yet redeemed because we were adopted into a King's mighty Kingdom by way of God's Son, who is not some random heir, but God Himself, and called to act accordingly as nobles in this Heavenly Kingdom that is and yet to come.

Submission to a King is a righteous way to live.

A knight on a mission.

A sage imparting the King's wisdom.

A servant illustrating the way to live.

A man, broken, yet perfect and being made perfect.

All good things.

All worthy of the submission itself.

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