I have this crazy story that I like to tell about submission. When we moved into our house in 2000, we'd spent several years getting out of debt, first. We moved in in October, my birthday is in November. A week before my birthday, dh walks in with a receipt that was a mile long from Circuit City. It was for a 52" TV, 6 disc DVD and a receiver. He says, "Happy Birthday" I saw that he'd opened a charge account with them and I was not happy. I opened my mouth to yell at him and the Lord shut it and told me to go into my room. Once in there, I told God how bad this was. When I got done, He quietly told me to tell dh that he could keep the TV, if he wanted to. I objected more, and ultimately walked out of my door and told him exactly what the Lord told me to tell him.
I returned to my room and cried.
The next day, dh took the receipt back and returned everything.
That December, dh busted his knee up terribly at work. Six months later he had a claim check, for a 3% permanent disability in his knee, from workman's comp. He bought his TV and got the DVD player for free.
All that is to tell you that I have been doing the worship music at our church for nearly 3 years. Without going into explaining what that means, I will tell you what it means spiritually. It has meant learning to walk in submission to church authority. I had a heart for us to play "younger" music. Well, I spent several hours with my pastor and his wife today and he gave me this long song list from Jesus Culture. Without further ado, here is our worship music for this week :-)
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i enjoyed the "happy day" video. we sing that song at church and my 11-y/o is learning it on the piano. her new (as of sept) piano teacher is also worship director at our church and often asks if there is a song we sing at church that she would like to learn, then incorporates that into her lesson.
that submission thing is defintely tough, isn't it? i don't even like the word. :-) i too am learning to keep my mouth shut. mostly at home, but now that you mention it, i should apply that principle to wed night kids' club at church, too. i disagree with way the leader does some things, and it's okay to voice my opinions -the 4 of us who work are a team- but i have not been able to convince her to see my point of view. i finally gave up, but now i can feel better about that by saying i am "in submission" to the leader. because i guess i am. :-)
back to the homefront, though... i am learning to keep my mouth shut, not try to be my husband's personal holy spirit, and just see what God does. sometimes i come to realize that that thing i felt so strongly about really wasn't that important anyway. and sometimes i am surprised to see what my husband comes up with without any help from my mouth. :-)
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