Life is so grand when we choose to live in God’s house and to delight in Him rather than in worldly options. Every day possible, I attempt to let people know the benefits of God’s love, in order to entice them to surrender to Him. However, their pride and rebellion often keep them on the wide road to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14).
They condemn themselves to an eternity in fiery torment by this choice (John 3:18). This makes me weep for them both day and night, as I pray for God to open the eyes of their understanding and to strengthen their inner being so they will choose Jesus' sacrifice as their own (Ephesians 1:18-20, 3:16). They fight the very choice that will benefit them the most.
The best decision we can make in our lifetime is to humble our self, choose to accept Jesus’ sacrifice for us, and to walk away from our disobedience to God’s precepts. The next step is to submit daily to God’s timing and ways, which are always perfectly planned in order to meet our needs (Ephesians 2:10) and to further His Kingdom.
Once we do surrender, we learn to trust in God’s plans for us with our whole heart, to reject our human wisdom and pursuits, and to consult the Lord about every decision we ever make. His plans for us keep us on the straight path of righteousness with fewer obstacles and less reaping of consequences that come from the poor decisions of our own choices (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Submitting to the Lordship of Jesus is hard for broken and wounded people to do. Life’s circumstances conditioned us to rely on our self because we cannot trust anyone else to have our best interests in mind when they make choices and decisions that include us.
However, considering Jesus submitting to the cross for our sake should prove to us that He is always trustworthy, faithful, and true. Our Father God wants to guide our steps by His Holy Spirit. This is the safest and most secure decision that we can ever make because God knows the end of our life from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10; Psalm 139:16).
Prayer:
Father God, thank You for sending Jesus to pay our sin debt so we can reap the benefits of Your holy decisions. Keep us ever aware that You already recorded in Your diary every event that would ever occur in our life due to Your foreknowledge of our choices. You yearn to take over control for us so we can make wise choices and reap less corruption from the consequences of our selections.
Help us to desire Your purposes for us instead of clinging to our meager aspirations. You have so many more delights planned for us than we could ever imagine (Ephesians 3:20). You handle our issues and inspire our actions with a more positive outcome than we could ever manipulate. Our paths for us leads to eternal suffering. Your paths for us include only good things for our entire life and then into eternity (Jeremiah 29:11; James 1:17-21). Help us to trust You in all things, so we can enjoy the benefits of Your divine destiny for us.
Thoughts for the Day:
Though our good works have no bearing on our eternal salvation, they do produce for us rewards that we can enjoy both now and throughout eternity. Life is as short as a breath of warm air on a cold wintery day, and if we walk in God’s perfect plans for us each moment, we can accomplish His will on the earth rather than our own meager aspirations.
- Ephesians 2:8-9; James 2:14-26
