Do you ever feel like you have certain rights? We are in month 9 of the race, and I believe that I have many rights. Some of my rights are valid ones, and some of them are not.There are certain things that I am just done with. Things are wearing on me, things are annoying me, and things are just getting old. I felt like I had the right to feel that way! But I had started to allow all my “rights” to get in the way of God still using me, still working in me, and still teaching me new things.
“You have many rights of your own. You may have the right to be angry, the right to be bitter, the right to give up on that wayward teenager. But to be crucified with Christ means that you volunteer to forego all your personal rights except one: your right as a believer to be filled and led by the Spirit of Christ who dwells within you. Don’t make the mistake of trying to simply ignore your rights when they are so difficult to lay down. Surrender them to Christ and ask Him to replace them with a supernatural work of the Spirit: with healing, with power, with wisdom! (Beth Moore)”
Last month in Tanzania was hard. I was demanding of my rights. I had not surrendered my “rights” to Him yet, to be honest I mainly just sulked in them. I knew that I had failed Him, but this month I surrendered them to Him: that is when Christ offered me His grace once more and brought me to Selaphum, Thailand.
