Rights

I have been thinking about my rights, what are my rights? As a Christian do I have the right to think as the world thinks? I think that it is easy to think that I have the right to react any way I want, but you see that the "I" gets in the way. I believe that in the Bible it talks about how we must surrender our rights to be changed to what Jesus wants in our lives. It is easy to think that I have to right to do what I want, but really when we look at it, one of the hardest things to do is allow God to be God.

As children growing up we think that we have the right to be any way we want to be, because we are in fact individuals. No one has the right to tell me what to do... I have the right to do anything I want to do, I have the right to think any way I want to think, I have the right to be anywhere I want to be. But really when it comes down to it, if I surrender my will to God, that I allow Him to lead the way, do I have any rights as a child of the most High God? It can't be about my rights, but about God's way. I must stop fighting about what I want or what I want to do, I must then surrender to exactly what God wants of me and I stop fighting it, I stop saying but what about me Lord, I start say yes Your way Lord, not my will, but Yours.

See we can learn a lot from the house of God, to the homes that we are raising, to the Christian walk. God talks about how the church is like the same set up as our homes, when we allow Him, we allow Him to transform us from the inside out. I think one of the hardest things to do is surrender. Have you surrendered your life to God? I think it is a daily/moment by moment choice. Sometimes our wills seem to fight us on this very thing, but God says who is in control? We have to say You Lord, Your will be done, Your kingdom come, not about me, but about you Lord. Surrendering our very right to make life about us and allowing it to be about God.

When we change our perspective from ourselves to putting God in control, it doesn't matter who tells us what to do, as long as they are speaking truth and I weigh it against God, I allow Him to be in control. It is no longer about what I want, but about what He wants. His way, His will be done, not mine. It changes everything, it changes how I love, how I react, how I am. Because it isn't about me anymore, but Him.