CWW Week 12 - Day 3 - Humility
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Humility
Scripture:
Philippians 4:6-7:
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Surrender
A severe trust deficit has brought on a plague of fear and anxiety far beyond anything I have seen in my three score years and ten. Lets take a look at all the accepted norms of our existence now under the cloud of scrutiny.
Clouds are no longer clouds but poison being sprayed on us all.
The planet we live on is no longer a globe but a flat plate.
Neil Armstrong took ‘one giant leap for man’ in a Nevada studio.
The Royal Family are not human but reptilian.
Anyone in power is a Freemason.
Need I go on?
Rabbit holes have now become wombat lodges and this is reinforced by media and governments that push a narrative that has now proven many conspiracy theories to be conspiracy facts.
What effect does this have on us as individuals and therefore us as a community made up of family groups?
We have become cynical and untrusting. Anxiety, depression and a desire to live outside the normal principles of life is driving crazy notions such as diverse sexual orientations and even the course of natural selection has shifted with people opting to identify themselves out of the human race and into the broader animal kingdom. Even more bazaar is that these new behaviours are not only considered normal but acceptable and even encouraged.
The simple things of life are no longer simple and perplexity abounds.
Where do we turn in our quest to return to something akin to simple and normal? We are most definitely in the struggle of the ages in what is clearly a battle between good and evil.
Philippians 4: 6-7 gives us a beautiful roadmap towards a sanity that can restore us in the here and now and equip us for a better life that is everlasting.
So how do we attain this in a sea of distortion?
We throw our hands out wide, look to heaven and surrender to the God of the universe.
My surrender.
Back in 2006 my life was scheduled to end on a specific date as I planned my own exit from this mortal coil. Lost in a crazy world of my own making that had become too toxic to live in, it seemed that there was only one way out.
Then just ten days from the set date, in a heated argument with my ex wife, I walked out of the garage of my very comfortable home, threw my hands into the air and screamed out, ‘I just can’t do this anymore!”
Before that moment of release I had thought that I would soon be out of here and there would be no more arguments.
Then within hours I met my now wife Michelle on what was to be my last flight to Perth. My plans to end my life were immediately shelved and my life has since exploded with relevance.
My scream to God was heard and one miracle followed another from that moment on.
‘I just can’t do this anymore!” is the moment the white flag was raised. I did not care what happened to me from that moment and God now has the remote control of my life. Only a few short months before I accepted that their must be a God but that I hated religion. This was a water shed moment for an atheist.
The change came when I first accepted that He existed and the next step was to surrender to Him. It worked.
Surrender is a sweet moment. When we accept the inevitable realisation that the control we have is so limited then we stop fighting and performing and we just let go. If we have faith or the beginnings of faith we can then let God.
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Letting go means “being anxious for nothing;” Prayer is talking to God. Supplication is surrendering to His power and control. Thanksgiving is choosing an attitude of gratitude and letting God know your needs is a way of accepting your plight and relying on Him. We will never understand the inner workings of the most high God but in accepting His power as a gift through Christ Jesus, we can have a peace that those around us will never understand. Though the heavens may fall we stand in strength beyond even our own comprehension.
Why?
Because we know Him.
Questions
- How much of a struggle has your life become and how much of that struggle are you ready to hand over to Jesus?
- Are you ready to do a spring clean of your soul and offer the Holy Spirit a fresh place to live?
- Take some time to contemplate todays devotional. What do you have to lose if you surrender to Jesus Christ right now?
Prayer
Dear Lord, Papa God.
Give me the strength to surrender to your will Papa. Help me to release the anxiety and float on the mighty river of Your love in perfect peace that surpasses all understanding, knowing that you will make all things right if I surrender to Your will and not my own; so that I may find reasonable happiness in this life knowing that I will have supreme joy with you forever in Heaven. Help me to let go and let God.
I ask theses things in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.
Graham Hood
