It begins in the church. The humbling for the world and the United States in particular begins in the church! We, as Christians, need to give up ourselves and seek God as our Lord…but we don’t know how. Even when we’ve been in the church all of our lives. So many of us spend every day looking for a path and we haven’t turned loose of ourselves yet!
We have to crucify ourselves daily like Jesus said, to realize our place in His calling to us. God’s call on our lives is more serious than most of us realize because of the “things” we need to give up. Our problem is those “things”, whatever they may be. To some people, those are big items and sometimes we have a hard time even considering giving up our personal “idols”.
Nowhere in Scripture is it referenced in a way for us to know the “how” of giving up ourselves and the parts of our lives that have become “idols”. That is the part that makes Christianity and being a Christian hard to understand and do. Truthfully, we don’t know how because no one else knows how to teach the “how”. Reading and studying God’s Word prayerfully and sincerely will teach us a little bit about the “how” but it’s not an easy lesson. We are not taught in our lives how to place our lives down as a sacrifice daily and follow Jesus in His teachings.
Sometimes we don’t find a way to do this until we are broken in our spirit by something happening in our lives. It could be a loss in your family or it could be God getting your attention by your own “demons” like alcoholism or drugs or something else that brings you to your knees. Until that happens most of us won’t surrender our lives to Him until we hit that wall and realize that we can’t do it on our own.
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