Change

We pray for change, and when it happens we are not ready to change with it.  When praying for people, we forget that as they change we too, shall change with them, toward them, toward Jesus, redemption and the cross.  The cross where suffering and eternal joy are met.

Today I am at a crossroad, and it brings excitement, sorrow and anticipation altogether.  Prayer works, and it always works at the exact time it needs to.  Fasting with prayer never takes long for answers.  Answers the way God gives them, and not always in the form I would have wanted, but answers non the less. Does God not know what is best for His children?  Can we trust that?

A life surrendered cannot pick and choose how God speaks, what He speaks and when.  A life surrendered moves when He moves, jumps at the sound of their name, and lays all of whom they are before the King.  Surprised to receive everything back, but polished and made new.

The process can be long and painful, the process can be exciting and quicker.  Obedience in the process is a choice.  Meekness is unbridled power brought into submission, once a fight against any attempt to bring the will under control of the master, now yielding.  Never loosing its strength or endurance, but a surrender of control to the master.

Today let us not have a battle of the will; let us choose to move forward in the bridled power of our Lord, and relinquish our control to Him.