COMPLETE SURRENDER

After Christmas, Kevin and I have had to make so many important decisions. I know I have even changed my prayer life to make sure that I am praying what the Lord wants and not what I want! It is a blessing to me to know that I can ask my friends to pray with me and they too will pray that the Lord makes evident in my life what direction I am supposed to be following!

A few Sunday's ago Pastor Walton preached on Proverbs 3:6. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." As I sat there, I began to tremble. This whole time, I was trusting in the Lord, but at the same time I was not surrendering to the Lord. I kept thinking that I would be able to do it on my own. I finally grasped the COMPLETE SURRENDER part of it. To me, it was a shock. This is a verse that I probably learned in elementary school and now after learning the entire meaning of it, I have claimed it for my verse this year!

In January, I began to question many things in my life. Where we lived, my church and my relationship with the Lord. I became unsatisfied with many things, and thought that it was the Lord telling me that we had to move on in our lives and relocate. Indeed, that was not it at all. The Lord was teaching me to to rely on Him first and then He will direct my paths! What an encouragement to me that was.

It always amazes me to see how the Lord breaks me down before He can show me the direction I need to go. It is never easy to be broken, but I am thankful that I am a Christian who has an eternal life in Heaven when my time on earth is done! How exciting that is!!

Kevin and I rely on the Lord for everything and the Lord has made it so evident in our lives that we must. Kevin is self-employed and we do not always know where the next job will come from, but the Lord is Faithful and we are to trust in Him!!