You will always know when your prayers are answered. Always. It’s those points where you give all you have, just to surrender. As stubborn, and as hard headed as you may be, you strive to surrender to a God much bigger than any of us will ever know. Life becomes a lot more vivid once you surrender your life to the One who knows exactly what to do with the situations and desires that, you yourself, have no clue what to do about. He knows exactly how to handle it. So don’t you think that we should at least give it to Him, rather than being ignorant and trying to handle it on our own? We don’t realize how powerful God is. We have no clue. We have an idea to an extent of His power. Someone special in my life, constantly reminds me of how powerful of a God we have. There is no doubt at all that God loves us on unfathomable levels, and that He wants to have this intimate relationship with us, but at the same time, God is an extremely jealous God. And His mighty plan will prevail.
We live in a world of beauty, but not all things are sweet an innocent. We have lions, sharks, spiders, and snakes. Tsunamis, tornados, earthquakes, and floods. Things that destroy and even kill. But let’s go back to the beginning. Not the beginning of you and me, but the very beginning. God created the earth, and everything in it. But He claimed everything as good.
“But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.”
- Jeremiah 10:12
It looks to me, like we have a God who knows what He’s doing. So how come it’s so hard for us to let go, and let Him take the steering wheel? We drive around aimlessly, trying to decipher our own map that we’ve made out and can’t even read as we drive further out. All while God is calling out to us to just pull over, or even take the nearest exit, just to let Him take the wheel. But we don’t. We just keep going.
It’s the same in our everyday life. All He wants is us. That’s it. Us. He wants all of us. Our hearts, our souls, our love. The God of the entire, wide universe, is begging us to love Him. To choose Him. To give Him the time of day, and to show Him even the slightest compassion. To turn around and chase after Him. To choose life.
“Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.”
- Proverbs 11:19
Knowing that I surrender myself to this, loving, powerful God, lifts so mny anchors off of my shoulders. But it’s something consistant that I find myself having to do. Even if I have to fall to my knees and surrender over, and over again.
But when I do, I find myself stepping into complete, raw, and utter bliss.
“Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.”
- James 4:8
