Can anyone answer for me the question, can you really put your life in the hands of the Lord? I have some experience in attempting to give my life to Christ, arguably with some degree of success and failure. I ask the question because I want to share the exhilaration.
I use the term exhilaration because I think it comes close to what it feels like to give an honest effort in this regard. The obstacles in the way of making an honest effort to embrace and then step to God are at times huge and obvious. But at other times, I believe the obstacles are more subtle and practically indiscernible.
For example, pride can get in the way because pride has no place in your relationship with God. It is important to recognize that pride is not supposed to have a place between you and your relationships with your fellow man either. To pride, you can add envy, greed, vanity, lust, selfishness, and bitterness.
In athletics they say it’s not whether you fall or fail, it’s what you do after you fall and fail. You can never win without doing both. Falling and failure are necessary parts of the game. If any of us are honest with ourselves, then falling and failing, are also parts of the Christian experience.
The question is after doing either, what do you do next? Time and again we fall. Time and again we fail. It is in this context that the effort to place one’s life in God’s hands is tested.
Many of us, present company included, want to hold on to our own abilities to solve our own problems, cure our own ills, blame others for our circumstances and rescue ourselves out of the troubles that we put ourselves into. We routinely pass judgment, act as if we’re better than others and refuse to give God credit for the many blessings that He bestows. Now let’s see you put your life in God’s hands from this back drop.
Can you honestly let go and let God? Relinquish your so called power and step out on faith. Really?
You see without complete submission, I don’t think any of us are in a position to hear the Word of God. I just believe Satan shouts and God whispers.
When you fail the devil shouts. When you succeed God smiles and encourages you to keep on truckin. Do you hear that?
