God really is a man with a plan, but so often it is hard to
say – “I trust you Lord.” It is hard to
give up control of our lives and let something else happen, something
potentially wonderful. When I was
younger I went to an amazing camp – it was called Kanakuk
Camps- it was actually beyond amazing.
I went to the “K-2” camps the first time and remember waking into it
wondering what I had just gotten myself into.
My older sister and I were going to be there for 2 weeks and it was a
little overwhelming. The counselors
were WAY too bubbly and sweet and we knew no one in our cabins, but by the end
of the 2nd day, we were settling in and beginning to enjoy
ourselves. We enjoyed ourselves so much
that we both insisted on going back the next year- and I went for a MONTH! They have camps for all ages, but the ones
that I went to was the one specifically set up for teens.
During our time spent hiking, fishing, blobbing, singing
crazy songs, competing, playing volleyball etc…, we had meetings at night. Usually these were called K-Life. These meetings were what changed my
world. Besides the fact that I learned
about drugs, alcohol, how to stay pure until marriage, creation vs. evolution
etc…, I also, more importantly, learned how to give my entire life to God. Joe White (the director of the camp and
truly amazing man of God!), equated our lives to a newspaper. He explained to us that we have a lifestyles
section, a sports section, a current events section, a comic section, and a
news section. Now, this was back in the
day when people actually read newspapers and didn’t just check their most
current electronic devise for the news.
He explained how he would read one section of the paper and then hand it
over to his wife, when she was done, she would hand it back, but never would
either one of them have the entire paper, they would get the entire paper, but
rarely would they posses it all at one time.
Joe explained that God wants us to give Him our ENTIRE
newspaper. We can’t sit on it and keep
some of it to ourselves because maybe there is a story in there that God wouldn’t
want to read, or an offensive comic.
God wants us to say, “Lord, you want to see my newspaper, here it is-
all of it.” Don’t hold a section of
your lives back from God. Maybe that is
the part that He really was looking for and could really use and really wants
to read, but we wont give it to Him because we are too protective of it. We don’t want to share the sports section
because we are doing fine on our own.
We don’t want to share the entertainment section because we watch things
that aren’t pleasing to Him and don’t want Him to convict us of it. He wants the whole paper. He bought the whole paper.
If you went to the store and bought a paper and it was
missing a section, you would be very disappointed. You would probably go back and say, I paid for the ENTIRE paper,
but I didn’t get it all. When Jesus
died on the cross for our sins, He died on the cross for ALL our life, not just
certain parts of it. He bought our
freedom with His blood and it isn’t very fair to claim that some of it is still
our own when he paid such a terrible price for it. He took our sins, our imperfections, the things that we are embarrassed
to tell the world about, and he bore that and took it and said NO MORE- never
again – your life is mine if you accept me.
Your life is what I want, what I suffered and died for. Praise the Lord that Jesus was no ordinary
man serving no ordinary God- He was serving the Most HIGH and didn’t stay dead,
and that is how we know that our lives were purchased. Because He Rose, we know that He IS the
Savior, the Messiah and our Redeemer.
We know that He could do everything that he says that He can do!
Is there a section of your life that you are holding
back? A section of the newspaper that
you pulled out before you gave it to God?
Give it to Him! He deserves
it. He paid for it – He wants to be
part of you as a whole- not just in pieces and parts, but a WHOLE. When you do – I promise you, things will be
amazing – life will change- doors will open and love will abound.
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