Submit, again

 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. James 4:7-8 

Satan doesn't have to convince you and me to do his will for our life. He only has to tempt us to demand our own. God has something bigger for each of us than our human minds can hug. Something eternal. Something that will still matter when our bones have turned to heaps of dust.

• God knows everything about you and every matter concerning you. Nothing is hidden from His sight. So submit to God.
• He is always looking out for your ultimate good and takes your hurts personally. So submit to God. 
• He is holy and worthy and incapable of abusing His divine authority over you. So submit to God. 
• He knows when your motive was right but your mouth messed up. So submit to God. 
• He knows exactly how to work terrible into good. So submit to God. 
• He loves you completely and unconditionally and will never let you go. So submit to God. 
• He knows the well-deliberated plan for your life and how all things must fall into place for you to fulfill your destiny. So submit to God. 
• He will never put to shame those who trust in Him. So submit to God. 

from Beth Moore's study on James