2 Advantages Of Being Under Cover

Ever find it real difficult to agree with your spiritual leader?

Ever feel it is beyond you to submit to spiritual authority above you?

Check out these two benefits!

1. Acknowledging God's Sovereignty Over Me
By coming under the leadership God has assigned for me, I recognise that God knows better than me. Sometimes, I think I know better, but that is a path too familiar with fools. God never promised me with leaders who will meet up to MY expectations, and I have to be careful to not think that MY expectations are the best for me. And when I acknowledge God's sovereignty over me, I find myself just needing to give the best in what I'm called to do for God; my Provider has others in His Mind to think about things He has not called me to be concern about.


2. Pride-grinding At Its Finest

"Consider others better than yourself" - When I feel superior to my contemporary, pride is fostered within my soul. When I feel superior to my leader, I find myself in a similar mindset which Lucifer once possessed. Obedience is precisely so called, because, to do something which I would do in the absence of an order, do not require obedience. I crush that looming hint of self-centredness within me when I obey God's authourity over me. Like Theologian Stephen Tong would say, "reasonable training teaches a man, unreasonable training moulds a man." And I find myself learning how to grind my pride and ego - the very things which can pave the path for me to hell.