How many lives do we have to give??

How Many Lives do we have to Give?

We all face daily decisions and need answers. We pray and pray and ask God for answers, but we don’t hearing anything… Why? I want you to understand why things are not going like you want them to! It is not because of God! You see, God does not fail us… we fail Him. You ask, how am I failing God! You fail to surrender your life to Him.

We think that as Christians, we are like cats and have “nine” lives. We get into trouble or have a trial or temptation come into our lives, and we go to the altar and lay it on the altar. We may get some solution to that need, but we still have no total peace in our lives. We repeat this over and over and each time we “rededicate” our lives to God! But that is not possible!!

Why do we do this? How can we “rededicate” a life that was never dedicated? We only have ONE life to give! Have you truly given your life to God? If so, you have no need for “rededication”… You can not redo (Do over) something truly done right the first time, with the one life you were given. We are not cats with “nine” lives to give over and over.

God gave us one life and a directive to do HIS will! Once you lay down your life to Him, there is nothing else in your life that matters! You’re total life is dedicated to doing whatever it is that God directs you to do! You Hear Him, and do HIS WILL! That is the true test of salvation.

If you have laid your life down, you have no life other than what God has for you! You are what God says you are and have what God says you have! Think about this! He requires that we give our life to Him. Just as Jesus did! How can we call Him God, and then not do His Will? To let Him have complete control of your LIFE and all that you are! You must give the only thing that God is interested in… Your LIFE!

Jesus said, you must deny yourself, take up your cross, and come follow me, or you will in NOWISE ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD! That is what is required to Enter the Kingdom of God. Jesus gave HIS LIFE that we might have life, and have it more abundantly! That life is HIS LIFE!

Like Jesus, we only have one life and we must be willing to lay it down, die to “self” daily, and be resurrected into the life of Jesus Christ. That is what being a “Christian” is all about! It’s following the teachings and instructions of Christ. This is the only way that we can have the benefits of the covenant sealed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ.

Examine yourselves today and your life. Is it totally in the hands of God? Are you hearing God’s direction for you, and doing HIS WILL, or are you still doing YOUR WILL? Are you using your LIFE to consume it on your own lusts, or are you committed to doing the will of God no matter what? Are you listening to other people tell you what you need to do to be “laying your life down” or “taking up your cross” and rejecting the word of God, from HIM directly? Are you trying to lay down bits and pieces of your “nine” lives and fitting God into YOUR Life?

Examine yourselves… look deep inside your soul and see who is really Lord of your Life! Knowing that a Lord, is in full control of all that is HIS, and gives instruction that is the only instruction that is followed by those that call HIM LORD!

You can’t enter the Kingdom of God without first laying down your LIFE! Forsaking all, and Come follow JESUS. It is the WAY to the blessings of the God! It might not be an easy journey… but it is the requirement of the God, if you desire is to spend eternity with Him!

“I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your REASONABLE service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect, will of God”
Romans 12: 1-2 (KJV)

ASK GOD… HEAR HIM.. Hear what He is saying to you.. and follow what He tells you…”hearken not unto another”… remember that’s what Adam did in the beginning… It wasn’t the fruit of the tree that was the problem, it was that Adam listened to someone other than God!!