As we walk with the Lord, we learn to submit to His will
for our life. We may not like some of the trials we encounter, but He goes
through each one of them with us, because He lives within us (Colossians
1:27). As we surrender to His unique will for our life, He works out
everything for our ultimate good (Romans 8:28). There
is no secret formula for success. We simply yield our plans, goals and desires
to God, and He leads us and puts His desires in our heart (Psalm
37:4).
When we succumb to Satan’s lies, we reject God’s truth and
we end up stressed, anxious and alone. As we humble our pride in the presence
of Christ in us, He exalts us in due season. Since He cares for us, He proves
to us that if we surrender all of our anxiety and difficulty to Him, He brings
us into the peace of His freedom (1 Peter 5:6-7). God is
trustworthy; and as He demonstrates His love to us, we learn to have faith in
His faithfulness (Deuteronomy 7:9).
Our surrender to Christ brings Him glory; because our human
effort and strength is not potent enough to deliver us from all that life
imposes on us. We leave our burdens at His feet through prayer, and then we
stand back in faith and watch for the salvation of our God, who hears our
prayers (Micah 7:7). Surrender turns our thoughts from centering on our
self; then God makes us others-conscious and we prefer one another (Romans
12:10).
Even if abuse and violation pepper our past, which makes us
think we have to control every aspect of our life now, our only hope of peace
is to sacrifice our pain on God’s altar (1 Chronicles 21:24). Then we
can totally surrender to the will of God, because the sacrifice, which Christ
made for each of us on the cross, overshadows our pain and is ever fixed in the
forefront of our mind. Each time we submit to the will of God, our fleshly
nature dies a little more, and the peace of God reigns in our mind and heart (Colossians
3:15-17).
Prayer:
Father God, teach us that attempting to control our life
actually makes us more vulnerable to attack from Satan and his cruel world (2
Corinthians 4:4). In our moments of extreme fear and hopelessness, You turn
our tears of desperation into drops of healing for our soul. Help us to walk in
the freedom of completely trusting You and bring us to the place where we feel
Your love washing over us like a waterfall each moment of the day.
Thought for the Day:
Totally surrendering to the Lord prevents us from drowning
in uncertainty, chaos and depression. – Psalm 13:3-6