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Saturday, September 16, 2006
.: Clinging on still to those shiny stones? :.
So what are they doing you must be asking.. Haha.. how come throwing stones? Somemore infront of the Istana.. later get caught by the police.. Haha.. :P
Anyway it was a good and simple time as a few of us met up for cell yesterday.
Key verse: " whoever finds his llife will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it" Matthew 10:39
Another translation of this ame verse reads "if you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up fpr Me, you will find it."
Many a time in life, we tend to cling onto the things which prevent us to live in true freedom in the LORD. Actually the only way to find the freedom of true life is to let go and give Him our complete trust. We are saved only by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. A saving faith must be faith in the complete Jesus, all HE is and all He represent. A saving faith cannot pick and choose what portion of Jesus to accept; we either let go and give Him out complete trust or we show we have rejected Him as we cling to self-control.
Question: So what then is that shiny stones that we still have been clinging on to and not let God come and take control of?
The world is always packed with many other better more attractive things which lure and keep us form surrendering to Jesus as Lord. However as we look closer, we see nothing but a handful of worthless stones which keep us form true freedom. We can no longer cling to the empty values of the world but instead let go and present ourselves to God as a living sacrifice.
If we want to find the freedom of true life, we much have a faith which allows us to lose our life to the will of our Lord, we must be willing to let go of our shiny stones.
Lets be convicted to give up and throw away those shiny stones in our lives today!