Not With God In Charge!

                                         2 Corinthians 5:7
                "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a  new
                         creature: old things are passed away; 
                           behold, all things are become new"

         Our Lord never nurses our preformed opinions.  He opposes and mortifies them.  We imagine that God has a special interest in our particular opinions; we are quite sure that God will never deal with us as He has to deal with other people.  "God must deal with others in a very stern way, but of course He knows that my opinions are all right."  We have to learn;  "Not With God In Charge!"  Instead of God being on the side of our opinions, He is deliberately wiping them out.  It is part of our moral education to have our opinions run straight across by His divine direction, and to watch how He does it.  God pays no respect to anything we bring to Him.  There is only one thing God wants of us and that is our unconditional surrender.
         When we are born again, the Holy Spirit begins to work His new creation in us, and there will come a time when there is not a bit of the old order left, the old observance is gone, the old attitude to things goes, and  "all things are of God."  How are we going to get the life that has no lust, no self-interest, no sensitiveness to being made fun of, the love that is not provoked, that thinks no evil and always shows kindness?
        The only way is by allowing not a bit of the old life to be left; but only simple perfect trust in God, such trust that we no longer want God's blessings, but only want God Himself.  Have we come to the place where God can withdraw His blessings and it does not affect our trust in Him?  When once we see God at work, we will not bother to think about things that happen, because we are actually trusting in our Father in Heaven Whom the world cannot see.
      
                                    May God Bless You
                                     And Your Families

                                                      Minister: Robert A. Lail
                                                      The Cross Life Ministry