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- This business of being
a living sacrifice cannot be an experiment for the Christian.
We are not allowed to venture
into the territory, peruse the landscape and then determine whether
or not we want to be a part of what is going on.
It is not possible to begin to
learn what it means to serve the Lord with abandon until the
decision is made and the commitment made in prayer to surrender
obediently to the Lord. Then we can allow Him to lead us in the
divine privilege of learning to be a living sacrifice.
Only the yielded know even the
most elementary experience of yielding. There is a threshold
that must be crossed, and all who cross it know there is no turning
back.
It can be sung about, talked about,
admired, hated, but only those who have given up all in prayer
are allowed even the teeniest genuine glimpse.
And, of course, without the willingness
to submit the whole life to the Lord, it is not possible to really
know God. I don't think that I will have the experience in this
life of feeling wholly submitted. We are in a war, and war is
a series of battles. In those battles, I must make choices that
test my decisions and teach me God's ways.
If I wait until I feel worthy
or think I have it all together, I will never give myself to
the Lord, because I will have fooled myself into thinking I know
what a living sacrifice is.
I have a little pea brain. I see
from a worm's eye view. But I have the Holy Spirit, and the Word
of God teaches me that it is He Who is "able to keep me
against that day." I can't keep myself. So, why try? It
makes no sense.
I will live and die His way - as
He has asked - clay by choice!
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