Absolute Surrender

God frequently requires adjustments in areas of our lives that we have never considered or been open to in the past. You may have heard someone say something like this: "Don't ever tell God something you don't want to do ...That is what He will ask you to do." God's not looking for ways to make our lives difficult. However, He intends to be the Lord of your life. When we identify a place where we refuse to allow His Lordship, that is where He will go to work. He is seeking absolute surrender. God may or may not require us to do the thing we identified, but He will keep working until we are willing for Him to be Lord of all. Remember, because God loves us, His will is always best! Any adjustment God expects us to make is for our good. As we follow Him, the time may come when our life and future may depend on our adjusting quickly to God's directives.

We shouldn't adjust our life to a concept. We should align our life to God. We should alter our viewpoints to resemble His. Change our ways to be like His ways. After we make the necessary adjustments, He will tell us what to do next in order to obey Him. When we follow Him, we will experience Him doing through us something only He can do.

PaulP

Without God at work in you, you can do nothing to produce Kingdom fruit. When God purposes to do something, He gurantees it will come to pass. He is the One who will accomplish what He intends to do. If you depend on anything other than God, you are asking for failure in Kingdom terms. He seeks for us to give absolute surrender to Him.

The assault on our desires

The battle of desire is not something that just takes place within us or even between us. It is also taking place against us, all the time. Our desire is under constant attack.
Desire is good, it is what takes us to God. But our desire is not hard-wired to God. We look to others to teach us what to desire. We are imitative creatures. It is how we learn language, it is how we master just about anything in life. It is how we come to seize the objects of our desire. We all know this, though we don't like to admit it.
Advertiser's play on this constantly, urging us to desire this and that by creating the image that" everyone who is anyone" has the object, and we are surely a loser if we don't have it also, sadly the ploy works.
The constant effort to arouse our desire and capture it can be described only as an assault. From the time we get up to the time we go to bed, we are bombarded with one underlying message: it can be done. The life you are longing for can be achieved. Only buy this product, see this movie, drive this car, take this vacation, join this gym, what have you.
The evil one basically has two ploys. If he cannot get us to kill our hearts and bury our desire, then he is delighted to seduce our desire into a trap. Once we give over our desire for life to any object other than God, we become ensnared...
Like the rich young ruler, we find we cannot give up our treasured possessions, whatever they may be, even though God Himself is standing before us with a better offer. If you think this sad story is not also your own, you are out of touch with yourself. We wind up serving our desire or resenting it, or a little of both.

PaulP

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