“Not my will but yours be done.” Luke 22:42
Jesus made a commitment to God that you and I will never be able to duplicate. As human beings, we have to view abandonment as a process which has no ending on earth.
What does it really mean to abandon yourself to God?
It begins in the depth of your heart and not on the exterior surface of your life.
What happens in the heart will transcend onto the surface of your life. It can never be the opposite.
God does not want you to have an emotional relationship with Him. Your emotions will betray you and your faith will be up and down.
Jesus wants you to have a heart of obedience and submit to Him regardless of the cost or lack of understanding.
This is a transaction of exchanging your will and autonomy for the will of God. You agree to give up your rights to follow Jesus.
The transaction with God is not about your pathway or purpose in life. This is the business of God not yours. He will reveal your future in His perfect timing.
As a believer you don’t have the ability to discern your pathway with God through human logic or your own ideas. God does not want your help in shaping the direction of your life.
Be content to walk with God one day at a time. Ask Jesus for His wisdom for today. Jesus lives in the routine and sometimes boring moments of life. This is where He likes to reveal Himself to you.
Walking with God is always about today. Your future with God is in a dense fog.
Jesus is always searching your heart looking for abandonment and obedience.
What are you lacking today?
Hal Hollister Ministry 