Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
You have a life, and that life is a great trust, a
great responsibility. It can stay in its own ambitions, its own
interests, its own worldly concerns and considerations, it can stay by
itself.
Will you give your life to God, will you let it go to Him, will
you put it on the altar and let the knife be taken that God may have it
utterly?
If you will, God will multiply your life, God will extend your
life, God will make much more of it than ever it would have been if you
had kept it in your own hands.
Have you got something in your life that
you are holding on to as a Christian; you are not letting that go to the
Lord? You know what it is.
I should miss it if I tried to catalog the
things it might be. You know you have something where you are not
letting go to the Lord. The Lord has put His finger on something, and
you are holding on.
You have an argument which you think is a very good
argument. You have a reason you think perfectly good, so you are holding
on.
Deep down the truth is you are not prepared to let that go....
There are times when, in recognition that a certain
course is the Lord’s way, we have to wait for the Lord’s time and see to
it that our strength of will coming into alliance with some purpose of
God is not jeopardizing the fruitfulness of that thing, and doing other
people harm and making other people suffer.
There are times when we have
to come back to the Lord and say, "Lord, You have shown me that is Your
way for me, but I can see that it is going to involve others in a great
deal of suffering.
I do want to be sure of Your time in my strength of will to do Your
will. I want to do this thing in self-sacrificing love, so that the
least loss shall be suffered by others.
We have seen people who are
right as to their objective, right as to what the Lord wants, but the
way in which they do it often spoils the whole thing.
They take hold of
Divine things, and while the thing is right,
they are spoiling it by bringing their own strength of will into
alliance with it.
This applies in many ways. We must be circumcised in
heart to do the will of God, ready to let go and let God determine the
way to accomplish it.
May the Lord interpret His Word and make it
fruitful. I know it is challenging. It searches us all; we shall all
come up against it.
But oh, see what happened in heaven, and see that He
desires that as it is in heaven, so it shall be on earth.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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