Not the best photo. Naturally, the camera battery starts going off on the heaviest snow day for Albuquerque in 30 years. But, it was deep. 18 inches or so. This is what it looked like in the backyard before the dogs got a hold of it.
Megan Wedding 2017
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Snow
Not the best photo. Naturally, the camera battery starts going off on the heaviest snow day for Albuquerque in 30 years. But, it was deep. 18 inches or so. This is what it looked like in the backyard before the dogs got a hold of it.
More Debt (continuing 'Under Obligation')
I woke up today and wanted to now submit and surrender to Him.
I've been using the analogy of a mortgage payment. When I make the payment and thus, adhere to the obligation, the result is clearly that my family and I remain in our house.
So, what happens when we submit and surrender to Him? What happens when I honestly turn over ME to Him? And how do I do this?
Perhaps it's a simple prayer. "Lord, I submit to You my life. I surrender my will to You. I seek to be conformed, not to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of my mind (Romans 12:2). Lord, I want to be shaped by You. May my life simply be clay and you shape me to live a life in accordance with Your Son, the Perfect One."
There I go.
And now, with confidence I can know that sanctification will result (Romans 6:19). With the same surety in the result of continuing to have a house to live in when I make that mortgage payment, I can know for sure that God will bear fruit in my life and I will be sancitfied or made holy or made seperate from being in the flesh. I remember the 80s tune from Simple Minds, "Sanctify yourself, set yourself free." For me, that means submitting.
Whoa.
I've been using the analogy of a mortgage payment. When I make the payment and thus, adhere to the obligation, the result is clearly that my family and I remain in our house.
So, what happens when we submit and surrender to Him? What happens when I honestly turn over ME to Him? And how do I do this?
Perhaps it's a simple prayer. "Lord, I submit to You my life. I surrender my will to You. I seek to be conformed, not to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of my mind (Romans 12:2). Lord, I want to be shaped by You. May my life simply be clay and you shape me to live a life in accordance with Your Son, the Perfect One."
There I go.
And now, with confidence I can know that sanctification will result (Romans 6:19). With the same surety in the result of continuing to have a house to live in when I make that mortgage payment, I can know for sure that God will bear fruit in my life and I will be sancitfied or made holy or made seperate from being in the flesh. I remember the 80s tune from Simple Minds, "Sanctify yourself, set yourself free." For me, that means submitting.
Whoa.
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