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Friday February 15, 2013

Turning our will and our life over to God always involves action.  If we simply say that we have entrusted our life to Him without allowing Him to make changes on His terms, then there’s not much new that’s taken place.  In other words, to give our will and our life over to the care of God requires that I invite God to live something new in me that I’ve not known or experienced before.  It will look and feel unfamiliar.  It will go against what I have previously known.  I will have to actually change in my way of thinking.  I will have to follow His voice rather than my feelings.  I will have to learn new ways of thinking and behaving and regularly check with God to see if this is what He calls right and good. 

Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today! The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did .... in the wilderness. For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did.  (Psalm 95:6-9 NLT)

Too many of us decide what the will of God is, based only on our own terms.  We fail to check with God to find out what His terms actually are.  To turn our will and our life over to the care of God is to give Him permission to tell us what is right or wrong, harmful or good, and actually adjust our behaviour to live that way.  We will do it once.   We will do it again.  We will continue making this dramatic change every single time our old way of doing things crosses God’s actual terms of new life.



Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.  For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. (Philippians 2:12-13 NLT)

Some of us may wonder how we are supposed to succeed at doing what God wants us to do.  It looks like such a high hurdle to overcome. How can we hope to be that perfect?  We have already admitted that we are powerless over the pull of our addictions.  Aren’t we also powerless to live in this new way?  The good news is that God not only asks us to live this life, He also provides us with the power and the desire to do it.  God will work in our life, to help us not only obey Him but to also help us want to make these changes.  

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