Random words of wisdom...Submit !!

  I look back and think about how many times I had tHe nerve to ask God Help me one minute but continue to do everything I wanted to do without including God in anything except my prayers!   THe problem wasn’t that God was not doing His part.  The problem was I wasn’t doing my part.   Job 22:21 says “Submit to God and be at peace with Him; in this way prosperity will come to you” …….  James 4:7 says “So humble yourslef before God. Resist the devil, and He will flee from you”.  Now it is written in black and white that if we do submit to God’s will He will take care of everything so why is that we can’t seem to do this one thing even though we know this is the one road to TRUE peace and happiness yet we claim to have faith?? Praying to God for Help without submitting to Him and following His word is not going to get results. That is on part of the process. We won’t instant gratifications instead of putting in any work. That is not the way things work so when we go to Him in prayer we should have already made the choice to have faith in God to handle the situation no matter what the situation is. Then after we pray to Him we need to let go and let God instead of getting in His way and trying to fix things our own way. Clearly our own way is not working to well so far so why not give God a chance?  We need to submit to His will and follow His lead no matter what His will may be!  Half the time when we do pray to God for Help we don’t even truly have faith that He will help us in the first place but we do it because it’s our “last resort” and we hope that He will deliver that miracle!  But if things don’t happen when and how we want them to we begin to doubt Him even more. We start to blame God for not loving us or blame ourselves for not being good enough to deserve God’s blessings or we just think God has forgotten about us.  Let me be the first to tell you that you are hindering your own progress!   God is not the issue we are!  You cannot pray to God to bless you with rent money and then go out and start selling dope, strippin, stealing, trickn and scheming for rent money and expect for God to still bless you.  If you believe in Him you will pray to Him and then listen for His instructions and we all know God didn’t say go get a brick and sell it in the hood so you can get that rent money so when you get caught up and put in jail, shot up or killed out here trying to get this rent money don’t blame God because you didn’t give Him a chance to do His work because you never submitted to His will!   By doing your own thing you have shown God you have no true faith in Him and you have allowed the devil to wreak more havoc in your life which means God has to come in and clean up the mess you just made in order to go back and clean up your original mess which does nothing  good but only delays your blessings. 

   Don’t get it twisted I do not believe that God expects for us to be SAINTS!  Adam and Eve proved that it’s not possible to be a total SAINT your entire life.  But I do believe that God wants us to choose him more times than not.  Now “religious” folks may preach to that you have to be a Saint in order to make it to through the pearly gates but that’s just not true. A true Child of GOD knows that all you need is a true relationship with God on a continuous basis and everything else will fall into place even if you are not a SAINT!  When you begin to submit you will strengthen your personal relationship with God and that is how we can live in peace and happiness in this crazy world and ultimately get to the BIG PRIZE your place in HEAVAN!  Submission is the key. That is where the journey begins.  You have to submit to Him more times then you submit to the flesh, or submit to peer pressure or submit to anger, or submit to fear, or submit to temptation etc….. If you just start submitting to His will more and more each day you will see the change in your  situations!! I 100% guarantee this. Even if you’re going through a storm worse than Hurricane Katrina you will see a brighter day real soon but only if you work on submitting to His will! It is so much easier than you make it out to be!    We make things so much harder for ourselves most of the time.  God’s blessings are priceless so why do we think we can get them without any effort?? If you want a priceless life then you have to submit to God and He will deliver!

Tlj