On the journey to living a life pleasing to God - we have found a series of steps and on this journey we have found:
Step 1: Make your life a living Sacrifice - Romans 12:1. This is about being all in - a whole person involvement in becoming the person God wants us to be.
Step 2: Deciding on and committing to the God that is big enough to create the universe and caring enough to love each one of us. See Psalm 145 for a description of this kind of God.
Step 3: Surrendering Our Past. This means to stop holding on to the things from our past - and most of us have things that we don't want to let go of. The longer we hold on to things that keep us from being fully committed to serving God the tighter our grip seems to get.
Step 4: Surrendering our Future: Even if we do give up, surrender our past there is more for us to surrender - including our future. We all want to think that we have one. Jeremiah 29:10 says that God has one for us. The problem is that we don't always see the future God has for us. We see only the future we have created. And the future we have created is always filled with us! It's about us, serves us, celebrates us. In order to truly have the future God has for us we have to surrender the futures we have created for us.
I wonder - who's future for you do you think will be better?
Pastor David -
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