Surrender - Almost Forgotten
"Follow Me…" "Seek ye first the kingdom of God…" "I did not come to be served, but to serve…" "I count all things as loss, in view of the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus. " We are living in a rising tide of "me". Individualized and customized in our food, clothes, and phones. More time is spent considering the question, "What do I want?" than ever before in the history of mankind. Why? Because society demands you make a decision about… you… The body of Christ suffers under the weight of self. Scripture tells us that our lives are vessels, and jars of clay. II Timothy 2 reveals that what God is doing is taking "vessels for dishonor, and making them vessels for honor". He is cleaning out the volume of self (sinful, lifeless, and powerless), and replacing it with Himself (pure, alive, and grace filled). But a full jar holds nothing new… Surrender is the initial and perpetual journey of yielding...