Brian Wood, a 33 year old video game designer, is called a hero by his wife. But I would also call his heroic act a submission to love. Last week they were heading home when a car driven by an intoxicated young woman was in their path and going to hit them head on. Brian swerved his car so it would only hit the drivers side in order to protect his wife and unborn child on the passenger side. Brian was killed but his wife and soon-to-be child were unharmed. Two passengers in the backseat of the other car were also killed. The police say if not for Brian's unselfish act, his wife and child would've died also. Hopefully many men will take note of this unselfish act of heroism.
Submission is an act of love.
Today our society has more children living without a father(and not due to the likes of this unfortunate accident) than at any other time in history. Mans role as fathers has diminished in our society because of the lack of one simple word:submission.
In the documentary film March of the Penguins we learn submission through the reversal of roles of the penguin.In the Arctic, after the initial mating takes place between the male and female, and once the egg is laid, it is the male penguin who will tend to the unhatched egg for more than 3 months. The male penguin will go without food for more than 125 days, while protecting the egg through harsh winter temperatures of minus 80 degrees. And for warmth all of the males will huddle together to protect those eggs from the bitter winds and cold.
While they are enduring all of this, the mothers will have traveled over 70 miles to sea for food, then trek back to their partners to feed nourishment to the babies who have hopefully been hatched successfully.
The male penguins then begin their journey to sea for food, and will no doubt be hungry, for they will have gone an astounding 4 months without food.
Submission is an act of love.
Submission is more than just yielding or surrendering ourselves to the will or authority of others. It is submitting ourselves to responsibility, choosing to go that extra mile for that friend in need, providing food to that brother or sister who may need it.
Submission is an act of love.
And the single greatest act of this love was Jesus dying on the cross for our sins.
Jesus submission is an example each of us should follow. Not just a submission to God, but having that unselfish act of love toward each other.
Thank God for people like Brian Wood today, to remind us what submission is really all about in a world filled with selfishness.
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