When we surrender our life to Christ’s Lordship, His grace gives us rest for our weary, discouraged, or troubled soul. We enter a realm of faith that we never experienced before, and He showers us with love, joy, and mercy if we are receptive and humble enough to accept it.
We soon learn that Christianity is not what we do on Sunday morning, but it is who we are in a totally submitted way of life. When we sing in our church services, we tend to sing songs that make us feel good and that give us assurance. We forget that we are singing to an audience of One.
When our songs focus on worshipping Him alone, we lift Jesus higher, so He can draw all men to Himself and give them His eternal life (John 12:32). We find rest for our soul as we avail our self of Jesus’ redemptive work on the cross (Matthew 11:28-30).
Jesus restores every willing person to a personal, intimate relationship with God (John 3:16-18). He finished the work He came to earth to accomplish (John 19:30), and He manifests His life in and through us so we can do greater works through our combined efforts with Him (John 14:11-13).
When Jesus submitted to God’s plan for Him on Calvary’s cross, God gave His Son all authority in heaven and on earth, taking back the authority that Adam and Eve’s sin gave to the devil (Matthew 28:19). Now Jesus abides within every authentic, Born Again Believer as our Living Savior and Lord.
Jesus removed the curse of sin from our life with His righteousness, and our insecurity with His divine identity, and our loneliness by His intimate union with us, and our fear of the unknown with His faith and faithfulness, and our hope for the future through His plans for us (Jeremiah 29:11).
Prayer:
Father God, thank You for fashioning our life with Your hands, as a potter forms the clay on his/her potter’s wheel (Jeremiah 18:6). The clay lays on the wheel, totally yielding to the potter’s vision for it, and we too surrender to our Potter’s plans for us (Ephesians 2:10). We love how much You love us and how You surround us with Your protection, love, mercy, and compassion.
Thank You too for sending Jesus to set us free from the bondage to sin (Galatians 5:1, 13-25). He is our Spirit of liberty from carnality (2 Corinthians 3:18), and it gives us such peace to know that the Spirit of Christ abides with us (Romans 8:9). With Him, we can do nothing; but with You we can do all the things You purpose for us to do (John 15:5; Philippians 4:13).
Thought for the Day:
God gives us His love, peace, joy, and fulfillment as we draw near to Him with an open and sincere soul – our thoughts, emotions, and choices (Hebrews 10:19, 22), and we live our life through His inspiration and guidance as a testimony to everyone He brings into our life.
