SURRENDER!
Living for the Lord (his unseen kingdom) is a life of faith AND it often gets HARD. It's hard to live a life that can in no way be controlled, manipulated, guided by one's own intellect, power or money. It's a life of completet and utter surrender. Surrender sounds like a very easy thing to do when we sing about it or talk about BUT it means being helpless or better yet powerless in the hands of another power, it's the act of submiting under another power. In our case, in the hands of our creator, GOD. It's giving our power and control up and submiting to the knowledge & power of the Lord and it's HARD.
I want it in theory but in reality, I don't like it. It goes against everything my flesh desires, it goes against everything I was trained or "educated" to live my life. It's HARD and could make one feel helpless and powerless. If God wants us to surrender everything that we could ever want to do for ourselves to him, how do we embrace it without fighting it, how do we enjoy surrender? I DON'T KNOW how to do it in my own strength, but I pray that the Lord would help me do it in his spirit. His word says "not by might, not by power but by my spirit says the Lord."Zech 4:6
I resist surrender because it's a path of the unknown, it's a path that follws God's day to day call in my life but doesn't guarantee anything other than eternal life with Christ. You may say, that's amazing, I want that but think again...that means not having a say in where you live, who you spend your time with, how you spend your time, how you spend your money, when you're going to move or how long you'll stay at your old boring and uneventful job or neighborhood. It's a call to die to your flesh, your desires, any inkling of your thoughts and living it for HIM. He gets to decide what you do, where you go, even what you eat. You are choosing to be a servent better yet, a slave of Jesus Christ and it HURTS your flesh but it HEALS your soul. It sobers up your mind and opens the eyes of your heart, you start looking to the needs of others than yours only and it is a greater calling because it satisfies your soul and it touches the heart of God.
Whether it's to God or our selfish desires, we submit to something...I chose to submit to his will and call in my life even though it's HARD. What do you choose?
Romans 6:5-11 "...For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus."
Mekdes
I want it in theory but in reality, I don't like it. It goes against everything my flesh desires, it goes against everything I was trained or "educated" to live my life. It's HARD and could make one feel helpless and powerless. If God wants us to surrender everything that we could ever want to do for ourselves to him, how do we embrace it without fighting it, how do we enjoy surrender? I DON'T KNOW how to do it in my own strength, but I pray that the Lord would help me do it in his spirit. His word says "not by might, not by power but by my spirit says the Lord."Zech 4:6
I resist surrender because it's a path of the unknown, it's a path that follws God's day to day call in my life but doesn't guarantee anything other than eternal life with Christ. You may say, that's amazing, I want that but think again...that means not having a say in where you live, who you spend your time with, how you spend your time, how you spend your money, when you're going to move or how long you'll stay at your old boring and uneventful job or neighborhood. It's a call to die to your flesh, your desires, any inkling of your thoughts and living it for HIM. He gets to decide what you do, where you go, even what you eat. You are choosing to be a servent better yet, a slave of Jesus Christ and it HURTS your flesh but it HEALS your soul. It sobers up your mind and opens the eyes of your heart, you start looking to the needs of others than yours only and it is a greater calling because it satisfies your soul and it touches the heart of God.
Whether it's to God or our selfish desires, we submit to something...I chose to submit to his will and call in my life even though it's HARD. What do you choose?
Romans 6:5-11 "...For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus."
Mekdes
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