Where I am today is a 🤫 quiet whisperer of my answer to this question…

Job 22:21-25 NLT. “Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you. Listen to His instructions, and store them in your heart. If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored, Amen.

— So clean up your life. I will readily admit this was lacking in my life previously. Post accident and into the present day first, I submit everything to God!

Submitting everything to God means surrendering your own will, focusing on His guidance, and trusting Him in all life’s circumstances—good or bad—through prayer, Bible study, and obedience, which brings peace and freedom, as commanded in scripture like James 4:7 and Philippians 4:6-7, to resist temptation and live a life aligned with His purpose. 

What it means to submit:

• Yielding Control: Letting go of your own desires and plans to follow God’s will, seeing Him in every situation.
• Seeking His Will: Praying for guidance and intentionally choosing to live according to His principles, even when it’s difficult.
• Holistic Faith: Bringing every area of life (thoughts, decisions, relationships, worries) to God, not just “spiritual” matters.
• Resisting Sin: Actively resisting the devil’s temptations by submitting to God, which makes you stronger against them. 

Practical Steps to Submit:

• Pray Constantly: Present your requests with thanksgiving, not anxiety (Philippians 4:6-7).
• Read the Bible: Understand God’s promises and leading through His Word.
• Cultivate Humility: Acknowledge God’s wisdom surpasses your own.
• Focus Your Mind: Think on true, honorable, pure, and lovely things (Philippians 4:8).
• Find Community: Fellowship with other believers in a sound church. 

The Outcome:

• Freedom & Peace: Submission isn’t restrictive; it leads to freedom from worry and inner peace.
• Transformation: God works in and through you as you surrender, leading to a changed life.
• Blessings: Giving up things for God often results in restoration and eternal rewards. 

Judge Of Character

 

2 Timothy 2:2 ESV

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 ESV

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

John 3:16 ESV

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 2:6 ESV

For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

Proverbs 11:3 ESV

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

1 Corinthians 5:9 ESV

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—

Isaiah 17:1-14 ESV

An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts. And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean. And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. …

Judges 13:5 ESV

For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

Leviticus 20:9 ESV

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

Mark 10:1-52 ESV

And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. …

Mark 3:17 ESV

James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);

Isaiah 40:1 ESV

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.