Hope For Today "Surrender"

We are spiritual beings who have a soul and live in a body.  God created us to be complete only when we are filled with His life.  We can’t think and choose appropriately unless we have the life of God in us.

How many of us have fallen to places in life where we never thought we would have allowed ourselves to be?  Then, thankfully, in a moment of clarity, we saw what we had become and were shocked. As with so many others, it seems that only when the chaos and pain reaches an out-of-control level for us do we actually call out to the Lord. Amazingly, at those times our Loving God is willing and ready and able to respond to our cry.

Even though God created us in love and watched as we turned our backs on His kindness, He still pursues us with His love.  When we call out to God, He is willing to show us the way we should go.

During times of great trouble and stress and challenge we need to lift up our lives and our hearts to God, trusting in God's goodness.  To the average onlooker it might seem like we have been abandoned to our troubles and that there’s no hope for us.  But that is NOT the case.

We experience true freedom when we have a clean slate with God.  When we humbly admit our faults and sins to God, with a sincere desire to be changed, God is faithful to forgive us.

God wants us to learn today that in the middle of challenges, if we make a choice to trust a good God, and hold onto hope in His promises, we will endure and we will come out of the experience as better people.

A person with a mature character is one who depends on the strength of God’s love and care in them and is not shoved about by what people say or do or fail to do.  God’s strong love that He is offering us today in generous measure is enough for us to be able to think and act and speak in the best ways that brings joy to God’s heart and blessing to others.

We take time to read God’s Word each day because we want the truth of God to seep into our souls and go deeply into our being. Sometimes we have to slow down and read and reread and think about what we’ve read in order for the words to actually touch our hearts and do us some good. We get the most out of our time when we ask God’s Spirit to speak to us about it each time we read it. 

Some things that seem small can be used by God, in His wisdom and power, to do great and even seemingly impossible things. L

We are naturally bent towards living in self-will and we live in a sinful broken world.  We get stained and germed-up every day and need the cleansing and refreshing God makes available.  Just as we “clean as we go” in our homes each day, so God wants us to allow Him to clean us regularly as we go through our day.

Every day we have choices to make that have some visible impact on the day and more far reaching impacts which we don’t yet see over the long haul. So, once again today, lets choose to listen to God voice and by doing that, choose life.

Anyone leaving a darkened room and entering into a lighted area knows how blinding the light can be.  It can be painful to our eyes and certainly limits our ability to navigate our way forward. We need time for our eyes to adjust to the light so we can see clearly. Each day, as we seek Him, God gives us directives to help us walk well and overcome sinful behaviour. This is good news, particularly for those of us who are learning how to live in the light after walking for many years under the convenience of darkness.