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The lesson of submitting to God is really profound. To achieve submission to God, one must first accept the truth and practice it, and one must submit to God’s orchestrations and arrangements. Submitting to the orchestrations and arrangements of God is the most fundamental lesson in submitting to God. God’s orchestrations and arrangements include the people, events, things, and various situations that God gives rise to around you. When faced with these situations, the most fundamental thing is to accept from God. Complaining, resisting, looking for reasons and making excuses are not accepting from God. Accepting from God requires that when something happens to you, you first calm down, seek the truth, and practice submitting. Don’t come out with excuses. Don’t try to analyze or speculate about who is right and who is wrong. Always analyzing these things is not an attitude of submission to God, or of accepting from God, or of accepting God’s sovereignty and arrangements.

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Accepting from God is part of the principles for practicing submission to God. If you are certain that everything that befalls you is within God’s sovereignty, that those things happen because of God’s good intentions, then you can accept them from God. What you must do in order to accept from God is to begin by not analyzing right and wrong, not making excuses for yourself, not finding fault with others, and not parsing through the objective causes of what happened. Begin with submission. Submit even if you have notions or if things are not clear to you. Do not start off with excuses or rebelliousness. And after submitting, pray to God and seek from Him. Having prayed, you will feel peace at heart, and you will naturally let go of your excuses. This paves the way for you to seek and practice the truth, and what remains is to practice the truth when you have understood it.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Submission to God Is a Basic Lesson in Gaining the Truth