Giving ALL

The most difficult thing about giving all to God, in my life, is the fact that I am selfish. I want to do what I want to do, and when I want to do it. I don’t want someone else to lead me, and I sure don’t want someone to try and pull me out of my comfort zone. If I have my mind focused on something I don’t want to get side tracked by doing something else along the way either. If I give my time to God, then it isn’t my time anymore and it isn’t up to me how I spend it. If I give my love to God and choose to love how He loves, then I don’t get to pick who I want to love– He does. If I give my days to God then I don’t get to plan them the way I want to and I don’t get to do what I want to; I do what He tells, or has told, me to do. If I give my interests to God, if they aren’t pleasing to Him, He is going to change them. Therefore, if I like to tell perverse jokes or long after guys He will definitely put that to an end.

This is the reason we are called to die to ourselves daily. This is the reason I have to give ALL to God. This is the reason I have to constantly repent and renew my mind. What I want is not at all what God wants. I alone am a very selfish person. My sinful nature brings up desires in me that ONLY God can help me overcome.