Week 01 Day 01 – Who’s in charge?
So, who is in charge of my life? God or me?
When I become a Christian, God just doesn’t take over the control of my life! I’m still in charge. The interesting fact here is that I am created with this ability to choose. And although God has a perfect and beautiful plan for me, He allows me to decide whether I want to let Him lead and guide me. The essence of surrendering to God is in my hand. And surrendering is an everyday, and deliberate process.
How then do I know and heed God’s will for me? I personally believe it’s in the closeness of my relationship with Him. As I read his word, pray and seek Him, He begins to reveal through sermons that I listen in church, through messages that I read from the net, from revelations that matches with my prayer and the reading of His Word or from fellowshipping with my fellow bothers and sisters-in-Christ. What comes next should then be a willingness on my part to heed His call, His will. Closeness also means that I have to say sorry the minute I sin against Him, cos He’s spoken clearly sins blots my life, my expressions and His communication from me (Psalm 66: 18)
Provoking my thoughts -
What is or should be my life purpose? if it is to serve and glorify God, what am I doing about it? Am I heading that direction? Or am I still so busy trying to fulfil the ambition, my career goals, my efforts to be materially rich?
Scripture texts that I could meditate on -
Ephesians 5: 15 – 17. Be very carefu, then, how you live – not as unwise, but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
Matthew 12: 50. Whoever does the will of my father in heaven is my brother and my sister and mother.
Romans 12: 2. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be tranformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Psalm 66: 18. If I have cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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