The Choice

We were driving back from Virginia yesterday, it was such a beautiful drive. Along the way, there were cows throughout the ride. The cows were grazing in the fields, not trying to escape, just eating the grass. It came up in conversation do you ever wonder if a cow thinks of being something different or complains about the weather. When you think a cow is just a cow, it has a purpose and that is all it does. A tree, can't be anything other than a tree until it dies. Same with so many other things. Plants can only be plants, but once it dies, it becomes something else.

We are so much like those things, we can't be anything else until we are willing to die (not literally), but until we are willing to stop fighting God. He has a plan for our lives, but if we just think this is all I am going to be, that is all we will be. If we say we can't do something and never try to do it, we will only be what we are. God says we can do anything, but we have to put all our faith and love into Him. That means in order to do something, we have to first intentionally do it, we must make the effort to say Lord your will be done. If we are not willing to say Lord it is not my will anymore, but Yours, than nothing will change.

Do you feel that you can't do something, but God is calling you to do it? Maybe it is time to stop fighting God and start surrendering our will for His will. If God says it can be done, who are we to fight with God? To climb a mountain, we can look at the mountain and say it is to big and give up or we can say it is huge, but know what I am going to try and then I have to start working at it, but the mountain will not climb itself.

If you are experiencing the thought that it can't happen or I will never do what God wants because I can't, maybe it is time to die to what I want and live for what Jesus Christ wants in me. Isn't it time for a change? It comes down to choices, am I willing to say not my will but Your will be done? God says it so I believe it and that settles it for me.

What sets us apart from non Christians? What makes us different? Are we different than the world or are we just the same, but we go to Church on Sunday? I say if we are going to call ourselves Christians it is time to live according to what Jesus Christ calls us to, not my will, but Your will Jesus.