Funny how that it so simple to say but really it's the most difficult thing to achieve. I've found myself in a place in my faith where I strive to surrender everything to God. To live in such a way that I can glorify his name in EVERYTHING I do. Unfortunately, I can some times hold on to what I need to let go to God and ultimately it doesn't work.
I've been reading a short book called The Practice of the Presence of God, where it's these set of letters or conversations written by this guy named Brother Lawrence. This guy is hardcore about his walk with the Lord. Pressing forward in EVERYTHING he does and he just really just gets it. I'm not finished reading it so I can't really explain much of the book. I know from how much I've read already that he's really on fire for God and he lives his days with the hopes of glorifying God in anyway possible.
From the second conversation:
That he had always been governed by love, without selfish views; and that having resolved to make the love of GOD the end of all his actions, he had found reasons to be well satisfied with his method. That he was pleased when he could take up a straw from the ground for the love of GOD, seeking Him only, and nothing else, not even His gifts. (The Practice)
What is it to be like that? The man is picking up straw from the ground for the love of God. It's hardcore. I want to be hardcore.
I've seen a lot of stuff in my life so far. Not as much as some folks maybe or maybe a little more. Life's hard, there isn't any doubt about it. Giving it all to God in FAITH is even TOUGHER. The joy that God brings into my life should be bigger than any storm in my life. There is NO POINT in being stuck in the lows of life when there is SO MUCH MORE beautiful things to enjoy.
God's made stuff for our enjoyment. Isn't that awesome?! His LOVE the GREATEST LOVE...you can't deny it. To surrender and fall into His loving arms. God is great. God loves no matter what.
Lately, I've been greatly blessed with a lot of wonderful things in my life. All those things have come from my surrender. "God, YOU do it...I can't, I won't, not anymore. I've seen what happens when I DO things. You have it. ALL OF IT." I'd say to myself and pray. It's just how I've grown in my faith since a long time ago. It's like I said earlier...it's tough sometimes.
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Lord please bless me in all I do and all I seek. May you have complete control and command in my life. May I be the warrior you want me to be in your great army. Take my gifts you have given me and may I use it in the fullest potential for you glory. Lord I want to be in complete surrender to you. I can't be dragged down by my own wants and my own needs. God, you take everything, I can't, I won't, not anymore. I've seen what happens when I try to do things myself. You have it. ALL OF IT. I pray that you give me strength to press on to the things I may not understand. That in the storms in my life, big or small, that I seek you always and that I have that peace to know your always there by my side and will never leave me, never forsake me, never give me something I can't handle. Lord be my center, be my rock, my firm ground. With you all things are possible and I am a new creation in you Lord. Hear my cry and make me strong. Thank you for your son and giving me a grace that's so overwhelming. Thank you for being my savior, my King, and best of all my FRIEND. Amen.
I believe in Love. I want to love Love himself, but in order to do so, we must strive to know him more. To know someone more, we must spend time with them. How can we spend time with someone, even someone in the same room, if our mind is on something else? I feel you. I want to be hardcore like that unassuming, gentle 80 year old Brother Lawrence. "Let us live and die with God."
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