Life Lessons

If you are or have at some point actively pursued a relationship with God--have you ever stopped to think that praying for the problems and people in your life feels pointless because God is going to do what He wills anyways? Well, today I was thinking of yet another reason to pray for someone specifically because I am quite frightened for the effects of their choices as it is blinding them and pulling them farther from everyone into isolation.  But then it hit me as I was asking that very question to a sibling in Christ Jesus--my worrying is not going to help them as much as it is me.

Praying to God about it is good, yes, but if I don't just let it go and give him the reigns..it's not an active thing. It's passive and moving nowhere. Also, my brother in Christ reminded me that prayer is ultimately a way that God causes us to see we can and do have a relationship with Him. He is our Counselor, Friend and Father. He wants us to ask for help, forgiveness, and peace but He also needs us to do so to see that He is God and He is here! We ask not just to feel like we are heard, but to have communication. We are born in need of communication, that's why we aren't the only human being on this planet. We were created to be in communion with Him first and foremost. What a great reason to be made! He made us for a RELATIONSHIP! Daily! And eternally!! How cool is that???

So the second part, the point that hit me and taught me something, is this: the best way I can be living, in terms of how others observe my life, is to be daily dying to myself and clinging to God. That love--that sacrifice--it is the clearest and most fool proof witness to others. I don't have to pray that I just say the right things and look the right way so that people see Jesus and not my thousands of imperfections, I need to be dead to me and alive by Christ. That is true faith. That is where Love will intervene and reach others through me. God needs me to be all about surrender. That is the daily calling on this heart. Praise the Father above! Amen.


"He said to all of them, 'Those who want to come with me must say no to the things they want, pick up their crosses every day, and follow me.'" Luke 9:23