For the past several years I have always selected a word over my life. Last year I felt that the Lord was telling me that my year was going to be one of blessings, both me blessing others and me being blessed by others. This year I felt the Lord calling me for this year to be one of surrender.
The first thing I got was surrender was some of the things that I can give up to become closer to God. I was praying about it and really felt that I can give up a little bit of the time that I usually sleep in the morning and in that time spend it diving into the word. Also I feel that I can give up some of the time that I spend on the computer or some of the time that I am playing card games and pray over what is happening in my life, as well as other’s lives.
I was also called to surrender to the Lord and his will. I need to surrender my ability to make choices and to take the path that I think is best and give that choice up to the Lord. He will ultimately make much better choices than I ever will and he knows the outcome of all things. So if I can get it into my head that I am not the best one to be in control then I can start to give over that control to the Lord. And only once the Lord is in control can I truly allow the Holy Spirit to work in my life.
So as I progress through this year I am going to be surrendering things that are pulling my farther from God as well as the control that he gave me. This is my word for my year, but it will also continue through the rest of my life, because this isn’t something that I can live a godly life with our doing. So I would also like to challenge you to surrender those things to the Lord that are drawing you away from him. Consider such things as partying, pornography, bad relationships, tv, the internet, and other things on the computer. Also ask the Lord to take control in those things in your life that would better be in God’s control and not your own. Put your future in the Lord’s control and you can really slow down and worry about the now. If you know the Lord will provide for you then you have no need to fret about those things to come.
