And more and more I realize that what i truly fear losing is sovereignty. I can give up and obey in many other things. But to give up and surrender myself to Him. I can't even grasp what that means.
How can I be in love with someone and not trust them? How can I be following someone and yet... not.
How do we find faith? How do we die to ourselves?
How do we live for Him, in Him?
Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
I love how Paul says that every family derives it's name from the father he bows to. Every family in heaven and on earth. It shows how one of the core values of God is family. And Paul's hope is that he may strengthen us through the holy spirit in our inner being so we could grasp that "Christ dwells in our hearts through faith."
I guess what Paul is trying to say is that we can only find that reckless abandon for Christ through his Holy Spirit. And that we being rooted and drawing strength from the love of Christ in us through the Holy Spirit. And established by that love. May grasp the vastness of the love of God in Christ Jesus. And grasp that we cannot grasp it because it surpasses all knowledge, and in knowing that be filled with the fullness of God.
He is able to more than we can ask or imagine within us.
Jimmy Needham-yours to take. "The son of man he came here to give life, and in return he's asking for mine.
What I can take.
I can love and trust God with my life because while I was still a sinner he loved me and gave his life for me.
But it's easier said than done. When the rubber hits the road... will I keep to the straight and narrow.
I guess I'll find out...
Ephesians v21-to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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