We all crave love, intimacy and deep friendships. So why is it that we so often find ourselves playing tag with those very same people? Tag... the game with very little rules, but can create very deep wounds. Tag..."I'm more right that you." Tag..."You're it and I'm". I can not count how many games of tag that Cyndi and I have played in our 19 plus years of marriage. What's strange is there have been times when we've known exactly what we're doing and yet we don't stop, we don't shut down the "game."
Why do we always have to be right?
Why don't we see protecting love, unity and oneness as more important that coming out on top?
Mankind started this never ending game of tag, and yet it was God who sent Jesus Christ to end the "game."
Jesus willing submitted to his fathers plan and died on the cross.
Jesus the one guy who was always right, always perfect, always loving... submitted unto death because restoring UNITY and ONENESS was more important to God than being right.
We may not like the word submit, because it means that we give up our "rights" to tag someone else.
Submit sounds like such a lower class word. Yet our greatest hero, freely submitted and gained victory.
Which is more important being "right" or living and loving in an amazing relationship built on respect, honor, and oneness?
You want to stop playing tag... step back and submit for the sake of the relationship.
It's the hardest thing that you can do... and yet it's the best thing that we can do.
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Great talks this week about commitment and how we create our own "house rules" to always win... even at the expense of hurting our relationships.
Unity and Oneness is the goal... but is that really possible without a commitment that actually cost us something. Without sacrifice and submitting to each other can we really ever be one?
Big question that has popped up this week... what if as you try and submit... stop playing tag the other person just keeps wanting to play tag and not stop?
Short answer that I'm putting out is.... Jesus submitted to his Fathers pland a desire to restore relationship and unity with us BEFORE we ever really desired it! Jesus submitted unto death for that relationship and unity. WE must honor and follow that example... even when others don't want to stop playing tag.
BIG CHALLENGE
TOUGH CHOICE
How do you respond?
Great post, I am almost 100% in agreement with you
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