People Are Not Easy to Love (no. 2)
“From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us” (2 Corinthians 5:16-19 CSB).
When I started my journey, I didn’t want to change BUT I needed to change. I started out my journey just wanting to start changing things here and there. I started with just wanting to change my physical health and that led to me changing my mental health which then led to me working on my spiritual health. And that is the chance we take when we let God do what He wants. I was content with just getting better for now in this area and that area BUT He was not content with little changes here and there. He was interested in changing the whole of me into something completely different.
And that is what is dangerous about giving your life over to God. You lose control. I have lost control of my life. I have had to quickly come to terms with that reality. I was no more than a few weeks into my journey when I realized this wasn’t going the way I thought it was going to go. And it still isn’t. I just had to give up. I had to surrender. And sometimes I don’t think a lot of us are ready to do that. I know I wasn’t ready to surrender ten years ago. I wasn’t ready to surrender twenty years ago. I wasn’t ready to surrender thirty years ago. BUT I have surrendered now. I have taken Him at His word, “Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it’”(Matthew 16:24-25 CSB).
Grace and Shalom to your home.
I love you. I forgive you. Have a blessed and abundant day!
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