Surrender: Learning to Move
Comrades, Friends, lend me your ears,
I've just started school yesturday (the harshness of life), but have just come back from an amazing time at home visiting friends and family and connecting with C4Cers at the Winter Conference in Calgary.
Winter Con was pretty sweet, but I didn't truly remember all I had learned until I talked with some of my friends who went to Urbana. Wow! It was so exciting to hear their stories of God calling them to more, not settling for any less than giving glory and honour to the King!
I've been having some internal struggles these past few days in relation to this and the area of surrender. Dictionary.com states surrender as "to give oneself up, as into the power of another; submit or yield". Christ continually talks about dying to oneself, picking up your cross and following him. Does this even register with half of us? What does it mean to surrender to death, place ourself on the alter, do whatever God wants whenever, totally relinquished to His will and purpose. It is a serious consideration to give up everything into the hands of the Living God.
Yet God calls us to this countless times...
A Story of Surrender:
In Exodus 14 God calls the Israelites to rest beside the sea so that the Egyptians will think they are trapped and race after them. They do so, but when all this occurs the "people began to panic, and they cried out to the LORD for help...But Moses told the people, "Don't be afriad. Just stand where you are and watch the LORD rescue you. The Egyptians that you see today will never be seen again. The LORD himself will fight for you. You won't have to lift a finger in your defense." (verses 10b & 13-14).
"Then the LORD said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to me? Tell the people to get moving! Use your shepherd's staff--hold it out over the water, and a path will open up before you through the sea. Then all the people of Israel will walk through on dry ground. Yet I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will follow the Israelites into the sea. Then I will recieve great glory at the expense of Pharaoh and his armies, chariots, and charioteers. When I am finished with Pharaoh and his army, all Egypt will know that I am the LORD!" (verses 14-18 NLT Italics added)
Even in our fear God is planning something great. He's got things working for his glory and as he calls us into obedience, asking us to rest beside oceans, he calls us to greater obedience, calling us to walk through oceans. Without God we can do nothing, we are trapped between one furocious army and one deep ocean. But God calls us from our resting place and says, "Get Moving! For I am with you!"
For me, death means staying where I am when God has called be to move. It seems like traveling through an ocean might just cause lack of oxygen, but God plans big things if we will trust him. Our surrender brings his glory as he fights for us and rescues us.
What is God calling you out of?
What is He calling you toward?
"When the people of Israel saw the mighty power that the LORD had displayed against the Egyptians, they feared the LORD and put their faith in him and his servant Moses."
~Exodus 14:31
What will your response be?
What will He do because of it?
Learning to Move,
Robyn
I've just started school yesturday (the harshness of life), but have just come back from an amazing time at home visiting friends and family and connecting with C4Cers at the Winter Conference in Calgary.
Winter Con was pretty sweet, but I didn't truly remember all I had learned until I talked with some of my friends who went to Urbana. Wow! It was so exciting to hear their stories of God calling them to more, not settling for any less than giving glory and honour to the King!
I've been having some internal struggles these past few days in relation to this and the area of surrender. Dictionary.com states surrender as "to give oneself up, as into the power of another; submit or yield". Christ continually talks about dying to oneself, picking up your cross and following him. Does this even register with half of us? What does it mean to surrender to death, place ourself on the alter, do whatever God wants whenever, totally relinquished to His will and purpose. It is a serious consideration to give up everything into the hands of the Living God.
Yet God calls us to this countless times...
A Story of Surrender:
In Exodus 14 God calls the Israelites to rest beside the sea so that the Egyptians will think they are trapped and race after them. They do so, but when all this occurs the "people began to panic, and they cried out to the LORD for help...But Moses told the people, "Don't be afriad. Just stand where you are and watch the LORD rescue you. The Egyptians that you see today will never be seen again. The LORD himself will fight for you. You won't have to lift a finger in your defense." (verses 10b & 13-14).
"Then the LORD said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to me? Tell the people to get moving! Use your shepherd's staff--hold it out over the water, and a path will open up before you through the sea. Then all the people of Israel will walk through on dry ground. Yet I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will follow the Israelites into the sea. Then I will recieve great glory at the expense of Pharaoh and his armies, chariots, and charioteers. When I am finished with Pharaoh and his army, all Egypt will know that I am the LORD!" (verses 14-18 NLT Italics added)
Even in our fear God is planning something great. He's got things working for his glory and as he calls us into obedience, asking us to rest beside oceans, he calls us to greater obedience, calling us to walk through oceans. Without God we can do nothing, we are trapped between one furocious army and one deep ocean. But God calls us from our resting place and says, "Get Moving! For I am with you!"
For me, death means staying where I am when God has called be to move. It seems like traveling through an ocean might just cause lack of oxygen, but God plans big things if we will trust him. Our surrender brings his glory as he fights for us and rescues us.
What is God calling you out of?
What is He calling you toward?
"When the people of Israel saw the mighty power that the LORD had displayed against the Egyptians, they feared the LORD and put their faith in him and his servant Moses."
~Exodus 14:31
What will your response be?
What will He do because of it?
Learning to Move,
Robyn
posted by Following His Lead at 9:12 PM
8 Comments:
great minds and great minds alike! hello similar bloggageness!
love you snotty!
WROABEAR! (I think I spell that differently every time!) Thanks for posting that Robyn, you are wonderful. I miss you!
sweet post!
i especially like your line: "For me, death means staying where I am when God has called be to move"
I agree with Cheryl! That is not where I want to be.
hey robyn,
really was touched by what you had to say. I hope you keep moving towards what God has called you to.
RRRROOOOBBBBYYYYNNNN. Hi.
Robyna!
Sounds a lot like the nastiness of Haran to me. :P It's funny how that was a major message spoken thousands of km apart...God is on the move, so His people had better get on the move too!
My problem, is, right now...I don't where on the move is! I started walking, you betcha, but exactly to where am I walking? Hmmmm...better go pray about that one.
Oy!
Love you bunches!
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