I certainly didn't write my first blog for my benefit....instead I wrote it because I felt like GOD was telling me that it was something I should do. Putting my life story out there for the world to see was SCARY to me! Nevertheless I said YES to what GOD was telling me to do!
At first, it felt great...then.................Satan started attacking me! Unfortunately over the last couple of months....I think I let Satan begin to pull ahead in the battle. I began to feel more and more distant from GOD.....and I wasn't liking it AT ALL!
TODAY.....I have come to a realization (thanks to the wonderful sermon today at church)! I needed to stop living a life of religion and start living a life of TRANSFORMATION!!
See, I now realize that I have been living a life by the "list"....things that I believe a Christian should say, do, act, and so forth. Of course I have allowed God into my life and so far I have let him change certain things about my life.....but I am not sure I have REALLY....LET GO AND LET GOD! Instead I have allowed him to change the things that I am comfortable with him changing.
Today, God really revealed to me that I needed to stop living my life based on this imaginary "List" and I needed to give up my old life.....so HE can give me a new one!
transform: to change in form, appearance, or structure
"And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to GOD because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and hold sacrifice - the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let GOD transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know GOD's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."
Basically....dare to be different. Give your life to GOD and he will change your heart and desires to match his will.....then.....a transformation will occur. You will become a new you!
Personally.....I am finally ready to be new! Completely new....completely transformed. I have new parts.....but I don't want any part of the old me. I am ready to LET GO AND LET GOD! It is time to FULLY surrender our lives....DAILY...not just when things are a little uneasy. Not just when it is convenient for us....not just when we are around our Christian friends.
SURRENDER DAILY.....GOD WILL TRANSFORM US!!
Religion puts a new wrapper on the old product....Jesus puts a new product in the same old wrapper!
(Pastor Smooth Via)
(Pastor Smooth Via)
My choice...JESUS!!
I vow surrender daily...several times a day...I vow to spend EVERYDAY getting to know God better and responding...I vow to put God FIRST in my life...all aspects of my life....even when it may not be convenient or cool to do it....
What about you?
