Last week I started packing up my dorm in boxes, trying to get a little bit done at a time. Did I pack away Jesus already too, anticpating the end of the school year? Before that, he was heavy on my heart daily, he was teaching me new things, he was continuing to mold me into the woman he wants me to be. Did I pack him back into the boxes like I had done at the beginning of the year just because things were too busy or crazy? What makes my schedule so important that I can forget the God who sent his son to die for me last weekend so that I can have a relationship with him? I don't want my overwhelming schedule to steal the overwhelming joy that God can give me when I am basking in him!
Lately God has been teaching me what "surrender" means. I need to surrender my time. I pour so much of my time into earthly things that by the end of the day I am only giving to God, who is eternal, what I have left and doing it half-heartedly. I need to surrender my plans. God has laid a major burden on my heart recently and I need to continue to surrender my plans to him. Even if I think that he has already directed my path, there is always room for change because my God is bigger than my own plans. The pure joy that comes from surrendering our life to a powerful God is much greater than the pleasure I will get from living a mediocre life without God as my foundation. How awesome it would be to sit at my Savior's feet surrendering my all, knowing that I have laid my life in the hands of a sovereign God.
I don't want to wish these next 11 days away, I don't want to wait for God to use me when I get home, I don't want to just wait until finals pass or when things slow down. Why should I not surrender now and allow God to use me today? I need to unpack him from my moving boxes and beg him to use me now!!
My prayer for the next couple of days..
