"I'm Disinclined to Acquiesce to your request..."

"Means no."

One of my favorite few lines of dialogue from the hilariously cheesy Pirates of the Caribbean movies. In my rush to get my thoughts out in that first post, I neglected to do any explaining. Hush, I'm learning. :)

The word acquiesce is defined "to submit to someone or something." Disinclined to Acquiesce actually describes my personality very well! :) But not in the ugly, in-your-face way that's become popular recently.... more like "I refuse to live life by anyone else's rules." A strength and a weakness, let me assure you.

The Lord has taught me a lot about submission in my short 24 years. :) From submitting to a parent's authority to learning to submit to a husband's, I have run the gambit of hard and easy lessons involving submission! It's not something I do really well. One thing I have discovered though, is that I find it much easier to submit to an authority when I am confident that love is the foundation of the relationship.

Satan likes to paint submission to God as limiting and restrictive. Funny thing though.... right after telling you that submission to the Father is icky, he invites you into submission to any number of things that only spell bondage for believers. He is the master deciever, afterall. I learned this vauable lesson in high school. The words, thoughts, pictures and "lifestyles" Satan works so hard to flash at believers in an attempt to distract their attention are actually rusty, rotten things covered in shiny, silver spray paint. He has no love for me; no love for humanity. His entire existence is wrapped up in keeping people from the Lord; keeping the lost lost and keeping believers from being used by God.

Hold that up next to a God who is not only the most holy, eternal, perfect being to ever exist, but also the only one that sacrificed Jesus so I could have a relationship with him and there's no contest. The only proper perspective I can take is that any submission the God of the universe asks of me is motivated by a love so big I can't fully comprehend it. This is so neat to me. :)

I'm so very human and therefore so very imperfect, so I'm always going to need course adjustments.... :) But from now on this girl is going to be extremly Disinclined to Acquiesce to anything that invites me from my heavenly Father's side.

Take that Satan.... You and your stupid shiny spray paint!

-Bek