Surrendering my life

When pride crippled into our lives, we are blinded and we don't recognize sins in our lives. When he breaks our pride until we become honest with ourselves and with God, we start to see many sins and unrighteousness in us.

How do we respond to him when we recognize our sins? Often time we are tempted to rectify the unrighteousness through our own strength. We try to take control but we still fail to meet God's standard. We feel depressed and stressed. Because it is motivated by self-consciousness rather than God-consciousness.

When we are God-conscious, we surrender our sins and unrighteousness into the hand of God. We let him take control and reign through our weaknesses. In this way, we can overcome our struggle with God's grace and strength.

He will bring us to his destination victoriously.

Lord, help me surrender my life and weaknesses unto you!!! For you are with me. No evil can harm me. Amen!!!

The Cost of Being a Disciple

Luke 14:28-33 "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, 'This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.'
"Or suppose a king is about to go war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.

If our end goal is to become his disciple, we have to prepare to give up everything of our lives to him. It is very easy for us to lose our focus when the worries of life, pleasure and riches tempt us along the way. It is very important that we make daily decision to surrender everything to Him, even our time and our future.