Have you ever stood in worship and felt like all eyes were on you and your "worship performance?" Have you ever given into the same spirit of temptation for what seems like the hundredth time? Have you ever felt limited by the circumstances in your life? I have felt all of this and more in the past four months on the World Race. Here I am on the kingdom journey of a lifetime which was supposed to be filled with breakthrough and powerful ministry opportunities. Even here I don't always feel free. I sometimes get so stuck in my head or what's going on around me that I overlook some profound truths.
Truth #1: In choosing to seek personal happiness and freedom from authority, I make myself a slave to my circumstances and those around me.
Truth #2: By making my own plans and relying on myself, I am missing out on all that God, my ever loving Father, has for me and my life.
Truth #3: If I serve God and do everything right, it counts for nothing if unconditional love is not behind it.
Truth#4: By embracing our culture's perceived role as a man, I place myself outside of God's design and I become that which I hate in others.
Truth #5: God desires for me to be free. And I can't be free until I surrender completely to Him. It is only through the loss of myself that I become who I am meant to be.
This topic of freedom us something I struggle with daily. There are moments when I accept the truths God has shown me and days when I go my own way. I don't have it all figured out or even fully grasp the freedom He desires me to walk in. But for now it is enough to just come before Him and trust that for each part of me I surrender to Him I receive a freedom, joy, and peace that surpasses all understanding.
