Make Jesus Your First Choice Not Your Last

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘Have you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of the will. You may come to that point many times externally, but it will amount to nothing. The true deep crisis of abandonment, or total surrender, is reached internally, not externally.’ CHAMBERS

 

“Sell all you have and follow Me” (Luke 18:22)  “Offer yourself as a living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1,2) “Deny yourself and follow Me” (Matthew 16:24) “Trust in the Lord with all your heart” (Proverbs 3:5,6) All of these verses, and there are many more, are a call to live a life that is abandoned to everything except God.  To consider Him first.  To trust Him first. To seek Him first.  Unfortunately, all too often, we do the opposite.  We look to our own devices …  our own solutions .. to the things that we can see that we consider worthy of our trust, to the counsel of our friends or some TV celebrity advisor. And if those fail, then we might consider the Lord.

 

Have you known someone who was struggling with a problem, perhaps your child, and you say “I wish you had come to me first”?  Why? Because you had the capacity to intervene .. to bring relief .. to avoid trouble … to give support … And so it is with the Lord.  We acknowledge that He is Lord but then we ignore His lordship. “Why do you call me Lord, Lord…?” (Luke 6:46)

 

Come To Jesus (Chris Rice)

 

“Weak and wounded sinner Lost and left to die O, raise your head, for Love is passing by

 

Come to Jesus,  Come to Jesus,  Come to Jesus and live!

 

Sometimes the way is lonely  And steep and filled with pain  So if your sky is dark and pours the rain...then

 

Cry to Jesus,  Cry to Jesus,  Cry to Jesus and live!”

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)