Hebrews 13:17

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Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Obey and submit. Those are the things that stuck out to me. God calls us to obey and submit to our leaders. What exactly does that mean? To obey means, "to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of". Submit is literally a synonym of obey in the thesaurus. So why are they in there together? Well to submit means, "to give over or yield to the power or authority of another". You see, God doesn't just call us to follow commands and instruction, He also calls us yield to the power of our leaders. Now not just any man is a leader that we should obey and submit to, we have to pray that God will show us and give us a good leader to follow. Don't get mixed up between following man and following God. I think so many times christians just pick someone to follow and treat them and listen to them like they're god. Your earthly leaders are still human. They're not always going to get it right. But think of it this way, if God gave us the leaders we obey then it's not in our hands. It's in Gods hands.

Application.
I'm applying this by writing down 5 people in my life that God has put in my life for me to follow.