Submitting to God

For many of us, we have been raised (or not raised) to be "in control" to take care of ourselves, to provide for our own needs, to look after ourselves.  To depend on no-one, answer to no-one, to take responsibility for our own actions or in actions.

That is why for some of us, me include, it goes again all we know to bow down and submit completely to an unseen entity.  To trust that God is there and will take care of us.  

I think that for all of us it is imperative that we have this "wrestle" match with God, for control of our lives, just as Jacob did.  I am finding over and over in the Bible, and I'm still in Genesis, that patterns, and repetitions are abundant, and they are examples to us to guide us.  When Jacob realized that he wasn't fighting a real person, he was fighting God, he KNEW that he could not win....he bowed down and requested his blessing.  Why does it take most of us, reaching the bottom, being broken, disabled, lost and disillusioned before we can submit to him completely?

When we fight God there is NO chance to win, not on our terms.  Only on His terms, an utter defeat of ourselves, do we have a chance of winning in the end. 

I want to share this that I found on the website Torahclass.com by Tom Bradford. 

I cannot help but recall my Ishmaelite brother in Christ Tass’s story about his coming to Lord. About how as a Palestinian, fighting against Israel, they could never seem to defeat the Jews. That, like the average Muslim Arab living today, there was the deepest frustration and anger that leads to irrational hatred over Israel because it was incomprehensible that 200 million Arabs could not defeat 6 million Jews. That the combined Arab armies that dwarfed Israel’s were defeated time after time, and brought nothing but humiliation to the Arab world. After coming to Christ, Tass suddenly realized why they had never been able to defeat Israel: he finally understood that the Arabs and Muslims who thought that their enemy was the Jews…… had actually been fighting God. And, when we fight God, there is absolutely no chance of victory on our terms. In the most ironic way, our victory in God must occur by the defeat of ourselves.

If you are down and out, depressed, lonely, lost in the world.  Have you accepted Christ as your Saviour? Have you accepted God's will over your own? Do you have your priorities in the right place?  Open your bible and read, start at the beginning Genesis is as good a place as any.  Find someone to read it with you.  Find someone to talk to about it.  jrpodgurski27@gmail.com  I'm more than will to talk, listen, hear, and share with you.  Don't go through life missing the truth, find it for yourself.  

And please keep in mind, you will get forgiveness from God if you sincerely ask for it.  But you may still have to face the earthly consequences of your actions.