Is Jesus the LORD of Your Life ?

Many years ago when our Big Rock Rd Women’s group was meeting every Friday morning (precious times we all miss) Kathy brought a guest who proposed the question…….

“When did Jesus become the Lord of your life?”

I had been a Christian for many years but when I heard her question it tore down very deep and the answer that came back was…….”Never.”

I believe (and I think scripture backs me up here) that when we “get saved” we accept the salvation of the Lord  for the redemption of sins and have eternal life in Heaven – but there is a deeper difference in accepting the calling of servanthood while here on Earth.

To say to Him “Thy will be done” is not as easy as it sounds.

So many people say that they do not pray because they don’t hear back from God.  I’m going out on a limb here, but I’m going to say that what they mean is that they don’t hear what they want to hear from God. When I pray I rarely hear what I want or expect – it is normally a command to sacrafice something.  After I obey I do hear “good job, or I’m proud of you”.  This hearing is normally in the form of a sense of relief that I heard and obeyed instead of being stubborn.

A VERY personal testimony of this was just this past June after I requested a meeting with husband #2 that I am separated from to discuss divorce.  We had not spoken in months and the last I’d heard was that he was so happy I was gone that he would be filing divorce papers shortly……. well, I had grown tired of waiting so I decided to do it myself!  I left the meeting and went to finish up the paperwork etc.  While working at my desk very late gathering info etc…… I felt the Lord trying to tell me something.   I simply stopped and opened up to listen.

“Write him an apology.”

“What?” long silence  “What for?” still silence. “Okay.”

I opened up a new email to my husband and began to type…………..

“Dear ……..”

Then it happened, I heard the Lord speak to me (but not until I had submitted to give the apology did He tell me what for)

To my horror I typed……….

“…..I allowed the irs to become more important than you and that was wrong. Pride.”

Now, to you reading this it may not seem like much but for me this was tremendous.  I believe the Lord told me NOT to file the divorce paperwork so I did not follow through.  However, He did tell me to call the IRS – I did.  When I hung up the phone I felt better financially than I had in years !   Because it was not about money it was about the Lordship of Christ in my life.

If I had been willing to listen to the Lord years ago about money I would have been a better wife. This is a hard truth. Pride is a big demon.

So the moral today is be careful what you wish for – when you are serious about serving God it might be hard to swallow.  Most of the time we are blinded by the “want to be right” and God rarely takes sides so you probably won’t hear from Him when it is an issue of sides.

He’s only interested in talking TO YOU ABOUT YOU. (ouch)