Let them eat Poison...said the Devil!!!

There is a surge in my spirit these days. My spirit glows hot with the Holy Spirit. All these trials of 2010 have tempered me, shaped me, pruned me. Oh, the pruning. It's not pleasant, but the end result is for God's glory, and isn't that what we are here to be and to show? It's all for Him. I thank God for the work He is doing in my life, and I thank Him for the Grace He has provided while waiting for the total surrender of my heart. Have I gotten there? I really have no idea. I thought I was there before, but then the great renovation of 2010 happened, and God showed me places where I wasn't 100% giving up control to Him.

That's the funny thing about surrender. We fight it because we are afraid of the loss of control and because God might take something away from us. We are afraid of the unknown. What is really sad, is that this is a lie straight from the pit of hell. Yes, God might ask you to give up spiritual arsenic. What's so terrible about that?? It's a new way of thinking. God only wants what is the absolute best for us. He wants to give us the first fruits. He wants us whole and truly complete in Him. However, we insist on taking the rotten fruit and stand firm in thinking it's awesome. We continually eat poison and tell ourselves that it's healthy. What a lie. What a distortion of what is truly real.

So, we fight. We resist. We hold fast to our rotten and poisonous ways, and all the while God is standing there, hands held out with the most amazing scrumptious food and we resist it. Sometimes we are really stupid. I mean stooooopid. When it is broken down to us first grade style, then we see the ridiculousness of the true reality.

So, I exhort myself and you. Give up the poison. Give up sin. Give up rebellion. Oh, what? You don't think you are being rebellious? Au contraire. Read Deuteronomy 11 and then search your heart again. It's a commandment from God. Love Him and serve Him with ALL your heart. ALL. That means everything...not just what you feel like giving up to Him. He wants the whole, not the part.

Ask God to search your heart and reveal to you the places where you have not given Him access and control. Repent...knowing that repentance means turning away from. Ask the Holy Spirit to make your soul good soil so that the fruits of the Spirit can bloom and grow in your heart.

If you do this, then you are giving up the rotten and the poison and are being GIVEN the best and the healthy. God removes things from us, so He can restore us to how He intended us to be in the first place, and to give us good gifts.

So, relax. Sit back. Surrender. Enjoy the Good life!

Yours in surrender,

Miss M.