2025 Week 11 Filipino Value Focus: SUBMISSIVENESS

As they say, everything must be done out of love and respect; otherwise, it would be considered useless. Even submissiveness is merely considered compliance with a natural duty when done out of compulsion or duty.
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Submissiveness is not forced by authority or position but is necessarily attributed to love and relationships. Take a wife, for example - regardless of how brilliant a woman is, she submits to her husband because of her love and honor for him. Spouses must submit to one another in love - leading the family and making corporate decisions. By culture, Filipinos adhere to the patriarchal concept where men are esteemed as the head of the family. Yes, leadership may be shared by the husband and wife, but headship is necessarily the husband's function.

Submissiveness is a necessary consequence of respect and honor. When honor is present, it is not difficult to submit to people, whether in authority or not. It comes out naturally. An honorable man submits, regardless of his position, degree, or accomplishment, to someone who is higher or even lower in position than him. This is because the honorable attitude in that man recognizes that each person is designated for a particular purpose, which should be respected.

Why do we need to submit it in the first place? It is because divinity requires us to "be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to the emperor as supreme or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people." Submission brings order to the institution; without this, we will have no organization. People will do their own thing without accomplishing the vision, mission, and goals. If there is submissiveness, there is order. If there is order, there is peace. And if there is peace, there is progress and prosperity. So submit one to another in love and see how progress will come your way.

ACTION PLAN

1. Make a list on the ways that you do in order to show submissiveness to your: 

• spouse
  
• parents
  
• boss
  
• government officials
  
• rules and regulations of your office
  
• ordinances of your city/municipality
  
• laws of your country

2. If you lack submission to any of the list above, make the necessary adjustment and resolve to apply it when confronted by the circumstance

DECLARATION

We are submissive to God's orders in our families, offices, communities, and nation. We submit to the divine order God sets in our family by submitting to our spouse. We respect and honor the leadership instituted in our offices. As such, we submit to our bosses. We appreciate every public official elected in our cities or municipalities and our national leaders. From now on, we shall not say anything wrong against them but support them by cooperating with the programs they are trying to establish. We submit to the laws of our land. Above all, we submit to God’s plan, direction, and will in our lives​​

​PRAYER

 Teach us Your ways, Oh Lord, and allow us to submit wholeheartedly to You. Like Your Son, teach us how to submit to our Father in heaven without any resistance or heaviness of heart. We ask for the grace to look at the purpose of every authority You have set over our lives in our homes, offices, communities, and nation. Please help us to submit with all our hearts so that we will not be a rebellious generation. All authority comes from you, and we honor you by honoring your delegated authority over our lives. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen​

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