Stubbornness, Life Lessons, and Complete Surrender
We don't know how much something is worth to us until it is taken away from us.
This is one of those hard truths of life. We have a tendency to hold tightly to what we have, but never realize what it's actually worth. You can never see what's inside your hand if your fist is closed around it. God desires us to live in a place where we are holding things with open palms. It's the same idea as Luke 9:24, "Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me will save it." It's only in letting go, in giving the things that we most care about over to the Lord, that we get to keep them.
How many of us frequently pray, "Lord, take it away from me." Yet, isn't that what He does, and the attitude that He wants us to have? I know that I want to appreciate what He's given me. And I want to appreciate it before He has to take it away.
Even more than that, God can't take from us what we have already given to Him. So let's be people who leave nothing off limits to Him. Because the moment we say, "Lord, you can have everything in my life, but you can't have that." Or, "Lord, I'll do anything you want, but not that." Well, surprise, surprise. Guess what God does? He pursues that. Why? Because He wants it all. He wants us to be completely surrendered to Him, and He wants complete authority.
Would you want Him to be any other way? I don't know any other person who has mastered the art of teaching life lessons to stubborn people. And if you let Him, He'll do it in you all the time.
This is one of those hard truths of life. We have a tendency to hold tightly to what we have, but never realize what it's actually worth. You can never see what's inside your hand if your fist is closed around it. God desires us to live in a place where we are holding things with open palms. It's the same idea as Luke 9:24, "Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me will save it." It's only in letting go, in giving the things that we most care about over to the Lord, that we get to keep them.
How many of us frequently pray, "Lord, take it away from me." Yet, isn't that what He does, and the attitude that He wants us to have? I know that I want to appreciate what He's given me. And I want to appreciate it before He has to take it away.
Even more than that, God can't take from us what we have already given to Him. So let's be people who leave nothing off limits to Him. Because the moment we say, "Lord, you can have everything in my life, but you can't have that." Or, "Lord, I'll do anything you want, but not that." Well, surprise, surprise. Guess what God does? He pursues that. Why? Because He wants it all. He wants us to be completely surrendered to Him, and He wants complete authority.
Would you want Him to be any other way? I don't know any other person who has mastered the art of teaching life lessons to stubborn people. And if you let Him, He'll do it in you all the time.
posted by Luke at 4:29 PM
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