“ But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink”’
Luke 17:8
You can totally tell that I’ve been raised in American, I read, and re-read this verse and my flesh just started to boil!... Wait so you want me to serve you first, make sure you’re all cozy and taken care of and then ‘m “allowed” to eat and have a cup of water?! Are you kidding me?!
Um...No. See here’s the thing, I’m dead, and I’ve never seen a dead person claim their rights. I have made a consciences decision to live my life for Christ, that means that my life is literally not my life anymore, but His to do with what He pleases. It’s not Monica’s Life being lived by Monica, it’s Christ’s living His life through Monica ,and I have to do my very best to live in the exact way He has commanded me.
When I wake up in the morning I’m not supposed to make a mental note of all the things I want to accomplish that day, what I really should be doing is meeting with the Lord every morning and asking Him what He’d have me do that day.In the same way that the servant works for his Master and places his Master’s desire before he ever considers his own, so am I to make sure that my wants, and desires are to come secondary to God’s.
Obviously it’s easier said than done, and even as I’m writing this there’s a part of me that’s asking “ I have to die to myself all the time? He doesn’t really want all of my heart at all time right...?” But He does. It’s my selfishness that doesn’t want to die to myself but it’s during that time that the Lord directs me to Romans 8:28:
And we know that all things work together for the good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His Purpose”.
As hard as it might be in that moment for me to die to myself, His word comforts me with the hope and promise that when I finally do completely die to myself in a situation, He, being the Faithful,Amazing and Wonderful God that He is, will make sure that the situation works out first to glorify HImself and His kingdom, but secondly that it will work itself out in a way that ultimately will be for my own good.
God is my Heavenly Father, and He won’t leave me hanging, but I need to make sure that my priorities and more importantly my heart places God and what He wants for me above my own desires.
Application:
I will fight my pride and desire to be in control outside of God’s will, by verbally repeating Romans 8:28 when I feel myself being led by a will other than God’s.
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