I have called you friends…
—John 15:15
“We will never know the joy
of self-sacrifice until we surrender in every detail of our lives. Yet
self-surrender is the most difficult thing for us to do. […] When the Holy
Spirit comes into our lives, our greatest desire is to lay down our lives for
Jesus. Yet the thought of self-sacrifice never even crosses our minds, because
sacrifice is the Holy Spirit’s ultimate expression of love. Our Lord is our example of a life of
self-sacrifice, and He perfectly exemplified Psalm 40:8, “I delight to do Your
will, O my God….” […] Beware of letting your natural desires hinder your walk
in love before God.” CHAMBERS
(Luke 22:42) “Not My will but Your will be done..” Jesus said that to the Father as He prayed in
the garden on the night He was betrayed. That is the essence of what sacrifice,
laying down your life is, is all about. Romans 12:1 says to “offer yourself as
a living sacrifice”. It is saying “no”
to yourself and “yes” to God. Just like
Jesus did. You face decisions of the
will every day. Do I choose what my
flesh wants or do I put my faith in God and obey Him. When you choose your own way, when you choose
to be “conformed to this world” (Romans
12:2) If you are reading this and are thinking … I want to choose God …
that is the first step. But it is the
next step that is the hard part, the place where so many fail. You must put your faith and trust in God and obey
Him even if you can’t see how it can possibly work. That is the essence of faith and that is the
problem with faith. (Hebrews 11:1) “Faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The greatest temptation is to trust in
yourself and go your own way. We do that
mostly out of fear. It never goes well.
Choosing your own way and rejecting God.
But we persist in doing it and insist that it will work somehow. Two words for you. Stop it!
CHARLEY
My Will – DC Talk
I'm setting the stage for,
the things I love. And I'm now the man
I, once couldn't be.
Nothing on Earth could, now
ever move me. I now have the will and, the strength a man needs.
It's my will, and I'm not
moving. 'Cause if it's your will,
nothing can shake me.
It's my will, to bow and praise you I now have the will, to praise my God
Complexity haunts me, for I
am two men. Entrenched in a battle, that
I'll never win.
My discipline fails me, my knowledge it fools
me. But you are my shelter, the strength
that I need.
I'm learning to give up, the
rights to myself. The bits and the
pieces, I've gathered as wealth.
And nothing compares to, the joy that you
bring me. The peace that you've shown
me, is the strength that I need.
It's my will, and I'm not
moving. 'Cause if it's your will,
nothing can shake me.
It's my will, to bow and praise you I now have the will, to praise my God
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