"Be serious in your commitment to GOD
and gladly leave everything else alone.
Literally put GOD first in your life" (Chambers).
The words of Oswald Chambers,
that I read every day.
A man who served GOD till the very end.
So much so,
that at the age of 43
he left this earth do to complications
from surgery.
A short life on earth, but a FOREVER life FOREVER!
For ETERNITY is FOREVER.
He lived a life of FOREVER
because he LIVED his
LIFE for GOD.
So the words,
"Be serious in your commitment to GOD
and gladly leave everything else alone.
Literally put GOD first in your life"
pierced my heart
in a way that
has brought me from a place of
WEARINESS
back to the why of WEARINESS.
I am serious about my commitment to GOD,
yet now I know why the WEARINESS.
As I am not "gladly" leaving everything else alone.
I CAST my ANXIETIES on HIM,
and then take them back.
I TRUST IN HIM with ALL my HEART,
yet keep a part of my HEART behind.
I PRAY for HIS WILL,
yet down deep I want my WILL.
WEARINESS overwhelms me when
I LIVE with a DIVIDED HEART.
A HEART that forgets that JESUS has my HEART.
A HEART that forgets that JESUS has HEALED my BROKENNESS.
A HEART that forgets that JESUS has set me FREE from all that kept me captive.
A HEART that forgets that I have a FULL HEART that I am told to
"Guard and keep yourselves in the love of GOD; expect and patiently wait for the mercy of our LORD JESUS CHRIST (the Messiah)—
[which will bring you] unto life eternal" (Jude 21).
So when I hold back from "gladly" leaving everything behind,
I think that I am GUARDING my HEART from being hurt,
when actually I am hurting HIS HEART that is in me.
I either TRUST GOD or I don't.
I either BELIEVE GOD or I don't.
I either
"CAST all my ANXIETY on HIM,
because HE cares for me" (I Peter 5:7)
or I don't.
This morning is a morning of
SWEET SURRENDER.
I lay down my
WEARINESS
caused by my own self-protection,
and instead
"Be serious in your commitment to GOD
and gladly leave everything else alone.
Literally put GOD first in your life" .
So thank YOU GOD for using the words of
Oswald Chambers
to bring me back to
YOUR HEART
to restore my HEART.
Will you lay down any WEARINESS
that has become a burden
and
SURRENDER your ALL to HIM,
so that you
WILL
experience
ALL GOD has for you
because
GOD never holds back in
filling your HEART.
As HE did it again for me.
It happened
"SUDDENLY"
(listen to the song below)
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