Victory Through Submission
By A. M. Dart
"SUBMIT yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4: 7. I can see no defeat for the one who complies with this instruction. But we must carefully consider it. I rise in the morning and submit myself to God. It is not hard to do. I am encountering no adverse influences. But this may not be true through all the day. The time of test and trial comes. Conditions arise that call forth the unlovely in my nature. Hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil are clamoring for recognition. Now it is not so easy to submit myself to God; but victory for Christ depends upon it. If I do not submit myself to God, I will submit myself to the enemy. The greatest of all battles is raging — the battle with self. I must make my choice. If I submit myself to God, the victory is won; for in submission, I come in contact with His power, which is all-sufficient. How interested heavenly intelligences must be in my case just now, anxiously waiting! But not one thing can be done for me till I choose. God Himself will not interfere with my power of choice. Webster defines "submit" thus: "To yield; to surrender; to comply." And when once this is done in God's favor, how quickly the victory is won! A. M. DART.