The Freedom of Surrender
The Freedom Of Surrender
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it (Lk. 9:24).
Mike is a dynamic Christian and worship leader. During a recreational basketball game, he bristled at a referee's fifth lousy call. Mike wanted to tell the referee just what he thought about his officiating. Inwardly, he was tempted to pray, "God, let me stop being a Christian for just 30 seconds; I'll repent and come right back, I promise. I just have to let this guy have it."
At that moment, Mike felt like the call to surrender to God was no less irritating than a horse being reined in by a hard tug on a steel bit. He found that it's one thing to surrender to God when you're leading worship and everyone is smiling. It's quite another thing to surrender to God when you feel you've been wronged. . . .
This is a great article by Gary Thomas, published in Discipleship Journal in Sep/Oct 1996. It's quite long so I didn't copy and paste it here. I found it to be a challenge and plan to read it again, several times.
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For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it (Lk. 9:24).
Mike is a dynamic Christian and worship leader. During a recreational basketball game, he bristled at a referee's fifth lousy call. Mike wanted to tell the referee just what he thought about his officiating. Inwardly, he was tempted to pray, "God, let me stop being a Christian for just 30 seconds; I'll repent and come right back, I promise. I just have to let this guy have it."
At that moment, Mike felt like the call to surrender to God was no less irritating than a horse being reined in by a hard tug on a steel bit. He found that it's one thing to surrender to God when you're leading worship and everyone is smiling. It's quite another thing to surrender to God when you feel you've been wronged. . . .
This is a great article by Gary Thomas, published in Discipleship Journal in Sep/Oct 1996. It's quite long so I didn't copy and paste it here. I found it to be a challenge and plan to read it again, several times.
Click on the link to get to the article.
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