Bad Hair Day

Bad Hair Day

Bible: James 4:1-10

Reading

When you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves,
you are slaves of the one you obey (ROMANS 6:16).

During a talk-show interview, a popstar admitted that she spent thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours each year on her hair and its styling. She said it had become an addiction and called her problem “submission to the hair”. The word submission means “allowing the authority or control of someone else”. Because of her need to look and feel beautiful, this celebrity was allowing her hair to be in control of her life. This woman’s story should make us think about our own desires and what we’re submitting to.

Do we at times want something so badly that we submit to doing anything to get it? Are we submitting to our friends’ admiration? Our social media? Grades? Sport? In his letter to the Romans, Paul said, “when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey” (ROMANS 6:16). When our desires “war” within us (JAMES 4:1), we are to submit ourselves to God as “slaves of God” (ROMANS 6:22). Humbling ourselves before God (JAMES 4:10) and asking Him to show us what we’re submitting to will help us to recognise ways we need to change.

TRUE FREEDOM IS NOT IN CHOOSING OUR

OWN WAY, BUT IN SUBMITTING TO GOD’S WAY.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries