Would you give it all up?
If he stands there and offers His heart of love to you, will you accept it?
Knowing the cost?
Will you give up your passions?
your desires?
your plans?
Will you say, “not my will but Your will.”
“not my ways but Your ways.”
“not my passions but Your passions.”
“not my desires but Your desires.”
Are you okay with surrendering control; giving up the reigns and letting Him drive from now on? Even if it means that He will lead us down a different road than we desire? A road much more narrow. A road too steep to climb alone.
He’s asking for us to count the cost, but He also wants to show us the reward.
He wants to take us on the road to freedom.
He wants to give us His Spirit without measure; His Spirit that knows all things. He wants to give us His heart, His love so pure that it compels us into action.
It’s the same love that compelled Jesus to the cross, the same love that had Him in the Garden of Gethsemane praying, “not my will but Your will be done.” The same love that caused Him to die for a world full of sin and brokenness.
To operate out of The Father’s love, it cost Jesus much.
But in return, He gained everything.
He was reunited with the Father, seated at His right hand. His enemies were made a footstool for His feet. He upholds the universe by the word of His power. His name is above all names.
He wants to give us the same love that He gave Jesus.
A love that compels us to surrender it all and put on the mind of Christ… to be kingdom minded.
Tonight @ 8:00pm the Guatemala team will be meeting and praying for the Father to give us His love. This means laying down our desires and expectations for our lives, and surrendering our hearts, souls, and minds to His will.
This sounds like a crazy awesome thing, right?
But honestly I’M FREAKING OUT!
We’ve been given all day to contemplate whats about to go down tonight. I’ve been driving myself a little mad…going over what the Lord wants to give us if our hearts are willing, what we are about to receive.
Dude, why am I so scared?
Do I really want a love so pure that it pierces through all the selfishness buried deep into the most bleak nooks and crannies of my soul?
Do I really want to soak up the sweet aroma of His love and sacrifice my flesh to obey Him?
Am I ready to finally experience the fullness of His love, so that I can start walking in a manor unbeknownst to the world? Where my thoughts and actions would no longer make sense. Where I might not be able to carry out the plans that have been in the works for the past 20 + years of my life?
I’m petrified of what this chaste love is going to compel me to do.
I’ve been told that I’ve been focusing on the wrong part of all of this. I’m focusing on the cost, not the fullness of the reward that He is about to give us. Through His Holy Spirit, anything and everything is possible. There is fullness and life in His love and in His will. There is rest. There is life and freedom; and that only comes from walking in His love.
“And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.”
Acts 20:22-24
He is asking me if He is worth it.
Even though chains and imprisonment may await me in the flesh, am I willing to receive His love so that I can be free in the Spirit?
So now I am asking you, would you give it all up?
If he stands there and offers His heart of love to you, will you accept it?
Knowing the cost?
