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| Stace | Dec 20 2008, 12:38 PM Post #1 |
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Jesus Has Not Come To Add To Your Life Jesus has not come to add to your life. Jesus has come to take you life and replace it with the life He has planned for you. John 12:24 says in the Amplified Bible, "Anyone who loves his life loses it, but anyone who hated his life in this world will keep it to eternal life …" And then in verse 26 it reads, "If anyone serves Me, he most continue to follow Me, [to cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying,] …" We must get a grasp on what is at stake here. Our live must be under the total control of our Lord and Master. If they are not, and we are trying to hold on to parts of our lives - then we are just trying to "add" the goodness of God to our lives as an added benefit. This won't cut it. Actually, we are trying to hold on to our lives and Jesus said that we would lose them. Besides, we make ourselves miserable! We end up trying to put on a bit of religion to our own disorganized, unsatisfied lives just enough to ruin both the plans - God's plan for us and our plans for ourselves. I've seen loves destroyed because they thought they could add to call of God into their lives, thinking they could achieve their own goals in the process. I have had to deal with this type of issue in my own life. In an area of my wilderness training when the Lord revealed the Name of this ministry, I began to see the ministry as an answer to all my problems. For example, I reasoned, once this ministry was up and running, and support was coming in, then I would be able to put propane in the propane tank located outside of our house. At the time of reasoning the tank was reading about 10% in November of 1999. I was concerned about Thanksgiving dinner, but went on to cook the turkey figuring there would be enough money before Christmas that year. The Lord spoke to me about this. He told me not to mix the ministry with the concept of paying my bills or providing my necessities. I understood what He was saying to me. I could fall into the trap of seeing the ministry as a means to the end. By having this perspective, the circumstances could begin to dictate to me my level of devotion to His work. For example, the more bills, the more drive to see His ministry rise, or the less bills, the less the drive and zeal. So I dropped my thoughts of, "once the ministry gets in full swing, we can have a full tank of gas outside." As it turned out, my wilderness training was not complete. What I had received was only the name of the ministry. There was much more to be done by God before He would be ready to launch us out.. I would like to add, that since that time, we never put propane in the tank and the propane tank never emptied. It continued to give full service for 15 more months. Yes, That's Right! Fifteen full months of never missing a meal due to running out of propane. The point I am trying to make is this. None of us can answer His call on our lives in effort to better our lives. Indeed, His will for us is "abundant life," but our hearts must filter, censor, and remove our own agendas, goals and plans and we must surrender to His will. If you have heard the Lord tell you that He has called you to write His Words to the world, don't think of needing the best computer, the writer's cabin in a beautiful and isolated place of tranquility for inspiration, but rather first - be determined to obey His desire first, even if it means writing His words with a broken pencil on the back of a cereal box. He has not come to add to your existing life, but to take over and replace. In this life, everything you need will be added to you. stace |
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