What a day that
day was! The day
the mind
received the
translation of:
“No authority
over God.” I
don’t mean the
vague
understanding
where the mind
really had not
swallowed the
truth of God’s
sovereignty. I
mean the day you
processed in its
entirety—that
God owns you.
The day the
heart and mind
met together in
agreement that:
Jesus is Lord
and He is
ultimately in
ownership of
you.
The day that a
life changing
decision is made
is a choice that
rocks the very
foundation of
our existence
meeting head on
with God. Its
days like these
where you can’t
deny the hidden
argument that
has no
dialogue—but
leads with
authority in
this crossroads
of eternal
ramifications in
free will.
God speaks
without saying a
word, and a
choice, a
permanent
decision is
averted and a
Christian is
born. The enemy
almost
destroying
another man on
this side of
existence is
thwarted because
of the fear of
the Lord. God
speaking to His
creation without
saying a word,
and a heart
accepting the
truth without
complete
understanding
starts the
beginning.
Then the real
journey is set
in motion as
this new
creation begins
to have eyes and
can finally see,
and has ears
that can
actually hear.
That faithful
and glorious day
of submission
has allowed a
garden to spring
up of truth in a
new heart.
The days of
learning in the
Lord, and
exercising ones
faith in
compliance to
God continue day
after day. The
old is being
purged and the
new is gaining
ground. God
still has His
eye on
everything that
you are. God
wants this full
obedience. The
tough days of
battle are yet
to come and the
anger and
frustration of a
hidden, yet
obvious God
breaks the
patience over
and over again.
The enemy and
the flesh agree
how unfair hell
could be in that
we had no choice
to exist. The
thoughts keep
attacking our
weak points and
expose our
arrogance of
self-ownership.
God points at
the stars and
says, “Who made
these? God
points at us and
says, “Who made
thee?” God and
the enemy are
working at the
same time to
build or break
the saints of
eternity.
God sees that
hidden thought
inside our
heart. God will
use our own
darkness of
pride to dig it
up for us to
finally
perceive. Our
hearts and minds
explode in
frenzy because
we see we can’t
avoid Hades. Sin
after sin and
failure after
failure is all
that we can
accomplish
before His
throne.
We start
pointing the
finger to
condemn the One
who was before
it all like we
have some clout
because we had
no choice in our
creation. Our
hearts full of
foolishness
scream the
unfairness of
sin and hell to
a people who
inevitably could
not stop from
sinning.
The fallen state
of Man coupled
with a deep
fleshy conceit
works together
as the enemy
begins
orchestrating
his best of
lies. He points
and pushes the
exact buttons
that sound like
truth, but what
it equals is
rebellion. Our
hearts scream
out, “I had no
choice! It’s not
fair that I was
born into sin
and death,
already right in
front of the
train that is
called the full
wrath of God.”
These are the
times where one
has to begin the
process of
examining a
thought, its
conception, its
birth, and how
it will
inevitably lead
one into
obedience or
direct
rebellion. This
mountain of self
must be
destroyed, and
the program that
is written in
opposition of
our God will
fire a thought
toward God with
hate—all the
time right into
our decision
making process.
We the receiver
(which is our
fleshy vessel)
will obtain
these hate
messages
downloaded
directly into
our minds. God
is calling us to
take command of
out thought
life. God is
calling us to
open our eyes to
the truth of
existence. God
is telling us to
recognize why we
even stand on
this green earth
and to not argue
about some petty
lying software
program—which
the enemy has
used countless
times to create
atheism, but
rather to accept
our gift of son
ship through
Jesus Christ.
The truth
throughout the
process of
conversion to
Christ likeness
is the battle
over the mind
and our love of
self-ownership.
When the quarrel
begins inside,
stop for a
second and
analyze the
ultimate goal of
the squabble. Is
it to discredit
the King of
every age? Is
the argument to
justify our
personal opinion
over God’s? The
reality of our
life is, that at
any moment God
could point His
righteous right
hand in our
direction. His
patience and
grace is
essential in our
ability to be
raised above the
danger of His
winepress of
fury.
There comes a
day of reasoning
in a heart, when
Man finally
accepts his
position of
created
being—subject to
the God who sits
enthroned above
the circle of
the earth. It’s
when he really
recognizes that
he is the one
that must
change, not the
Creator. It is
the point the
created decides
to purposefully
submit to God.
On hearing it,
many of his
disciples said,
“This is a hard
teaching. Who
can accept it?”
Aware that his
disciples were
grumbling about
this, Jesus said
to them,
“Does this
offend you?”
(John
6:60-61)
“From this time
many of his
disciples turned
back and no
longer followed
him.
“You do not want
to leave too, do
you?”
Jesus asked the
Twelve. Simon
Peter answered
him, “Lord, to
whom shall we
go? You have the
words of eternal
life.
We
have come to
believe and to
know that you
are the Holy One
of God.”
Then
Jesus replied,
“Have I not
chosen you, the
Twelve?” (John
6:66-70)
The point where
you begin to
realize that the
only real choice
is God, Peter
understood and
expressed,
“Where else can
we go?” My
journey with
Jesus has been
him putting me
into submission.
I comprehended
the same thing
that Peter did
two thousand
years ago, where
else can I go
but to you, God?
The Lord stood
His ground in
that he
articulated to
me that I would
change or fall
away. My journey
is just
beginning with
new
possibilities
because of my
submission. I
have no clue
what the Lord
may do now. I am
more lost then
ever, in life
but I have an
invisible Hand
guiding me.
The
Christ follower
must believe and
step out in
faith on a
moment-by-moment
basis.
The epic journey
of Man walking
the earth
sandwiched with
sin and evil on
every side, the
enemy prowling
around ready to
devour, and this
weak breakable
piece of pottery
about to fall.
Oh what a
fragile piece of
art Man is. How
can he be saved?
Man has an
unavoidable
fallen state,
his tendency to
fall into sin
even after his
redemption. The
enemy accusing
day after day
with his minions
pointing at our
sinful
inadequacy
before God and
he is exactly
right in his
accusations. A
Savior is born,
and Christ is
His name. Jesus
came to save.
Jesus wants to
save us! The
sovereign God of
the universe
does not just
submit to
torture, shame,
and then death
without a
purpose to it
all; God wants
to save us. We
just have to
submit.
God sits in
eager
expectation
waiting to begin
His new
millennial world
order of peace,
love, no pain,
no sadness or
death, with an
infinite joy
that no eye has
seen, no ear has
heard and no
mind able to
conceive—which
is the glory of
our God. Snap
out of it I say,
and accept what
is already
yours,
forgiveness.
Stubbornly
submitted,
Don McReynolds
McReynoldsdon@ymail.com