Surrender

Are you willing to be obsessed with Me to the point of sacrificing each individual goal, plan, fear, prideful motive, and hope that you possess?

Lord, I will make you the most important aspect of my life.

No. I want to be your life.

Lord, I will read Your Word, invest in people, and live according to Your Word.

For what purpose? Do you desire to please Me? Or do you desire to please Me to the extent that it will cause you feel good about yourself?

Such conversations have occupied my thoughts for several weeks. The Lord has been asking for every single seemingly “small” aspect of my life. It is not a matter of changing one “unwise” habit that I possess at a time. It is not about taking better care of my body, honoring my parents in my heart attitude, or spending more time in Scripture. It is about a complete surrender of my lifestyle to what He has chosen for me.

Typically, making surrendering decisions is simple and keeping my commitment is more complicated. However, my overwhelming fear of failure (pride!) has stopped me dead in my tracks. I remain at a standstill.