VOLUNTARY SUBMISSION

Voluntary Submission ~ 44 ~ words, is the tacit understanding that the subservience which God exacted from the stars and the planets will be offered to Him by man of his own volition. In this universe it is only God who is Lord and Sovereign. All other things are His subjects. It was God’s will that a creature should come into being which does what God wants him to do, without any compulsion, of his own free will. This voluntary submission is so subtle a test that even the heavens, the earth, and the mountains cannot bear it. However, man despite great apprehensions of his failing to fulfill the responsibility, accepted it. Now man in this world is the repository of one of God’s trusts. He has to impose on himself what God has imposed on other objects in the universe. He has to rigorously apply the commands of God to himself. Man is in a state of trial and the present world serves as a vast trial ground for him. This ‘trust’ is an extremely delicate responsibility, for the matter of reward and punishment is based on its fulfillment. Other creatures have no