Ever since I gave up control of my life to God, and gave up pursuing what I consider to be "my work," I've experienced blessing from that moment on. I'm starting to sell a lot of things online. I'm finding things at stores that I've never seen there before and that have been on my mind and on my mental lists to buy for years. My wife and children are liking and treating me better. And I didn't really think God would start blessing me right after I gave everything to him. I didn't really doubt but I didn't think the blessings would come so soon after giving God control. I thought the reciprocation speed of the very next day shown in the “Flywheel” movie must have been written for the movie, but it seems I'm experiencing something immediately and noticeably different. My struggle will be to keep myself from taking the control back in any area of my life.
I'm finding that when you give God control, you step back from your life, your work gets easier - your burdens get lighter and fewer - and blessings start coming immediately and more frequently. This is what they must call “giving your life to the Lord.” I did this on Saturday night 1-31-2015. I now understand how people can know their actual date of transformation and letting go because it is a conscious choice to try this submission to God thing and I was so impressed with positive results within 24 hours that I want to remember the exact date of the best decision I've ever made. It changed my whole life, outlook, everything for the better. Giving your life control over to God is the very opposite of the enemy's best weapon, pride.
“One of the significant areas of conflict in life is the battle that emerges from wanting to have things God’s way AND my way. One example is desiring God’s mercy while we expect, and even demand, to be treated with fairness. Desiring fairness is a black hole that leads to anger, frustration, disappointment, and struggles in relationships. Where would you and I be if God treated us fairly? Does God ever have a reason to be fair with you? In pride, I want to say yes. I don’t deserve unfair treatment. But such thinking is stupid. In light of what God has given for me and how I act in return for his mercy, any demand for fairness is indeed stupid. To expect fairness is to live like a fool, to live has if there were no God. You see this in your children. If a sibling seems to have more fun, more time with a toy kids become outraged. “It’s not fair!” Whether I want to admit or not, I often act the same way. Mercy and fairness – they are not compatible. I often find that children’s behavior is so much like my own. We can easily spot sin in children and totally miss it in our own lives. Mercy is showing kindness to who are weak, sinful, and needy, because Christ loved me first when I was his enemy. Understood biblically, there is no one who is not weak, sinful and needy. We are all equally in need of mercy from God and from each other. Stop complaining about a lack of fairness, cry out to God for mercy. This will bless you and your children! Prayer for mercy: Father, thank you for being merciful to me all the time, when I never deserve it. I want to be merciful, too, but often I care more about fairness than mercy. Help me to be quick to forgive or overlook an offense. Help me to have compassion for those in need. In Jesus’ name, Amen” ~Ruth Younts.
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