One day in China I was home alone. We had discovered the lice from Cambodia (two months earlier) were still living with us and after a few days of treating a teammate I got them too. That day my teammates had been declared lice free, but I was still not allowed in school That left me home interceding and taking a day with God.
As I sat in the sunshine listening to music, the Twila Paris song How Beautiful came on my ipod. I have heard this song so many times, yet this time the line, “we offer this sacrifice that we will live just as he died: willing to pay the price” hit me in a new way. I had always heard this line as meaning that we Christians need to sacrifice. However, that day the word WILLING stood out, and I had an epiphany.
He wants us to live willing.
OK so this may be one of those super simple, everyone has figured it out but me things, but that day it blew my mind. God simple wants me to be willing to do as He asks. To let go of what He says to let go. To take what He says to take. To go when He says go. To stay when He says stay.
Isn’t that how Yeshua lived His life? Willing.
Our Papa can work with willing.
