What does a surrendered life look like? Ouch…This question was posed
yesterday to our Sunday school class. Just hearing those words made me say,
ouch! If I want to grow more in God, I will need to make some changes...
Shane Idleman addressed this issue in his article titled, “Don’t Fear
The Fully Surrendered Life” Here is portion of the article,
“In today’s culture, there are countless enticements that pull us away
from a fully surrendered life. It is my firm belief, that, second only to
salvation, the fully surrendered life is the most important aspect of the
Christian life...to truly know God: “You will seek Me and find Me when you seek
Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).
Sadly, very few of us ever experience this close relationship with God. This
isn’t meant to discourage, but to convict. Conviction is a wonderful gift from
God used to turn the heart back to Him.
The puritans used the phrase, “The same sun that melts the wax hardens
the clay.” In the same way, we can allow the word of God to soften our hearts,
or we can resist and become hard as stone.”
This entire article is worth taking the time to read it in its entirety. You will be challenged and encouraged to life in total submission to God and not our culture.
If you are interested you may search for Shane Idleman 's entire article here. It may take a bit of searching…. it is well worth the search… look here: Fully Surrendered Life
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