Purposeful Submission to God

Don McReynolds

What a day that day was! The day the mind received the translation of: “No authority over God.” I don’t mean the vague understanding where the mind really had not swallowed the truth of God’s sovereignty. I mean the day you processed in its entirety—that God owns you. The day the heart and mind met together in agreement that: Jesus is Lord and He is ultimately in ownership of you. 

The day that a life changing decision is made is a choice that rocks the very foundation of our existence meeting head on with God. Its days like these where you can’t deny the hidden argument that has no dialogue—but leads with authority in this crossroads of eternal ramifications in free will.

God speaks without saying a word, and a choice, a permanent decision is averted and a Christian is born. The enemy almost destroying another man on this side of existence is thwarted because of the fear of the Lord. God speaking to His creation without saying a word, and a heart accepting the truth without complete understanding starts the beginning.

Then the real journey is set in motion as this new creation begins to have eyes and can finally see, and has ears that can actually hear. That faithful and glorious day of submission has allowed a garden to spring up of truth in a new heart. 

The days of learning in the Lord, and exercising ones faith in compliance to God continue day after day. The old is being purged and the new is gaining ground. God still has His eye on everything that you are. God wants this full obedience. The tough days of battle are yet to come and the anger and frustration of a hidden, yet obvious God breaks the patience over and over again. 

The enemy and the flesh agree how unfair hell could be in that we had no choice to exist. The thoughts keep attacking our weak points and expose our arrogance of self-ownership. God points at the stars and says, “Who made these? God points at us and says, “Who made thee?” God and the enemy are working at the same time to build or break the saints of eternity.

God sees that hidden thought inside our heart. God will use our own darkness of pride to dig it up for us to finally perceive. Our hearts and minds explode in frenzy because we see we can’t avoid Hades. Sin after sin and failure after failure is all that we can accomplish before His throne. 

We start pointing the finger to condemn the One who was before it all like we have some clout because we had no choice in our creation. Our hearts full of foolishness scream the unfairness of sin and hell to a people who inevitably could not stop from sinning. 

The fallen state of Man coupled with a deep fleshy conceit works together as the enemy begins orchestrating his best of lies. He points and pushes the exact buttons that sound like truth, but what it equals is rebellion. Our hearts scream out, “I had no choice! It’s not fair that I was born into sin and death, already right in front of the train that is called the full wrath of God.”

These are the times where one has to begin the process of examining a thought, its conception, its birth, and how it will inevitably lead one into obedience or direct rebellion. This mountain of self must be destroyed, and the program that is written in opposition of our God will fire a thought toward God with hate—all the time right into our decision making process.

We the receiver (which is our fleshy vessel) will obtain these hate messages downloaded directly into our minds. God is calling us to take command of out thought life. God is calling us to open our eyes to the truth of existence. God is telling us to recognize why we even stand on this green earth and to not argue about some petty lying software program—which the enemy has used countless times to create atheism, but rather to accept our gift of son ship through Jesus Christ.

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