My Life Is Not My Own…
1 Peter 4:5-6 (Amplified Bible)
5But they will have to give an account to Him Who is ready to judge and pass sentence on the living and the dead.
6For this is why the good news (the Gospel) was preached [[a]in their lifetime] even to the dead, that though judged in fleshly bodies as men are, they might live in the spirit as God does.
I sat down yesterday and began to do a few months in review. It seemed the past few months had not been my happy, happy, joy, joy times...If I could trace it back to an event it would have to be the obedience to do something I had not been obedient in for a while. It seemed the minute I said yes to walk in what God has been calling me to do, so many dynamics in my life began to be challenged and certain elements of my life seemed to be turned upside down. As I sat there on the edge of my bed my eyes filled with tears, but not out of sorrow, but out of the realization that to do what God asks can be costly, but to be chosen to do so is such an honor and a privilege…
My God daughter has spent the last month in the hospital spending time with and ministering to a couple where the husband was diagnosed with cancer, and that she barely knows, because God instructed her to do so. My mom has spent the last school year interceding for her school and every teacher, administrator and student that attends her school, because God instructed her to…There have been times in my life recently that God had me give my last to someone and I did because He told me to. He has asked me to pray through the night turn down my plate for weeks, sometimes months at a time, and I did not understanding why just because He told me to. But most recently he asked me to carry something that I had no earthly idea why I had to carry it, because He instructed me. You see when we really seek after God, and come into the knowledge and understanding of the magnitude of what Jesus has done for us, What God has kept us from and what the Holy Spirit has taught us, our life is not our own. It is not about what we want to do, or how tired we are, or what our agenda is, it is about the call of God and the mandate that He places on us to do His will. You see we cannot be the house divided or the heart that is divided. We were dead, in our sin and Christ raised us up, He quickened us and made us alive once again. He gave us an opportunity to be redeemed and have eternal life. If we have a shred of understanding of what was done and what that should mean to us, we understand that we become indebted to the one who saves us.
Are we still trying to do all things our way and squeeze God in, where we can? Has He not done enough that allows us to see our life is not our own… That God has given us life where none existed and He has called us out of darkness into His light to do good works, hat bring Glory to His name and bring splendor to the kingdom…being a bondservant to God means we recognize the debt in which we owe and that but for Him, paying that debt we would be enslaved to sin.. But God, for God has redeemed our lives and made it brand new, don’t we owe him? Not just our loyalty, and worship, but our service and our obedience, you see our life really isn’t our own…It should belong to God and the way we live and serve the kingdom should be evidence of that!
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