Submission and Freedom. Makes me think of a couple of books Rollo May wrote (that are still worth reading)–Love and Will; Power and Innocence. Sort of juxtapose two ideas that seem to be opposite but that are actually united in a little dance.
Jesus said that you can’t love two masters. You’ll wind up serving one and hating the other. Many of us, when thinking about freedom, think that we have no masters. I’m not sure how that works in cultures other than American, but many Americans think you’re free when you have no masters. Hence a little bit of the popularity of our “Tea Party” movement.
People who study human beings beginning from ancient times knew that it is impossible to have no masters. Many of those who think they are free from constraints are actually driven by emotions, urges, addictions.
One freedom humans do have (unless they have psychological problems caused by innate chemical imbalances) is the freedom to choose. In the end, you have to choose your master or a master will choose you.
One way to look at submission is to say, “By choosing God as my master, I am now free to act as a human in ways that promote both my growth and the growth of those I meet.”
Things that stop growing die. Growing in maturity as a human walking with God is life.
Faith Venture 
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