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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 7: Total Surrender


I am going

 INSANE,

because I keep

EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS

DOING THE SAME THING.

But maybe I am not going

INSANE,

because I am doing what

GOD is asking me to do,

and just because

things aren't working out the way I want them to work out,

they are working out exactly how GOD wants them to work out.

So when I am

 DOING what GOD asks me to do,

am I TRUSTING in GOD

or

TRUSTING in the actions of others?

Hmm.

An opening of the eyes of my heart moment.

Therefore,

 I will keep doing what HE asks,

and leave the results and timing to HIM,

because GOD KNOWS me way better than I know myself.

So when HE asks me to

"Be kind to one another, tenderhearted,

 forgiving one another, as GOD in CHRIST forgave you"

(Ephesians 4:32) ,

then I am to

BE KIND

and

BE TENDERHEARTED

and

FORGIVING

one another,

just because GOD FORGIVES ME IN CHRIST.

Hmm.

And oh how it is hard to do,

when you keep doing it over and over again,

yet

you are not being

treated with

KINDNESS

and

TENDERHEARTEDNESS

and

FORGIVENESS.

But we are to

 DO IT ANYWAY!

To keep PRESSING FORWARD,

when you want to go BACKWARDS.

To keep TURNING the other CHEEK,

when you want to respond with not so KIND words.

To keep FORGIVING

the same offense,

over and over and over again.

And why?

Look at JESUS

who wasn't treated with

KINDNESS

by those who did not have a TENDER HEART,

yet HE FORGAVE them anyway,

And why?

Look at JESUS

who I didn't treat with KINDNESS,

when I didn't have a TENDER HEART,

yet HE FORGAVE me anyway

on that bloody day on the cross,

way before I was even born.

Did I know I wasn't treating HIM with KINDNESS?

No, because it wasn't like I was screaming and yelling at HIM.

I just ignored HIM, as I left HIM at church,

Did I not have a TENDER HEART towards HIM?

Maybe so, as HE KNOCKED on my HEART, 

yet I wasn't still enough to open the door.

But now I KNOW HIM.

And now I KNOW what HE had to experience,

and HE is

 ALWAYS KIND towards ALL

and

ALWAYS TENDERHEARTED towards ALL

and

ALWAYS FORGIVING to ALL.

Hmm.

Therefore,

 I am not going INSANE, 

as I am not riding the

INSANITY train

when I am doing what GOD asks me to do,

because I am

laying all my expectations that I place on others to

respond to me the way I want them to respond me,

at the foot of the cross

because that is what GOD has asked

us all to do~

"casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns,

 once and for all] on HIM, for HE cares about

 you [with deepest affection, and watches

 over you very carefully]"

(I Peter 5:7 AMP).

Oh the sweet spot of surrender

to

LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND

and

"COME TO THE WELL"

(listen to the song below)



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