I remember well the struggle I went through trying to surrender to and determine God’s will for my life concerning college. I distinctly remember the night the Lord won the victory. I basically knew what God wanted, but it was not what I wanted. It was about 2AM and I was sitting in the dark beside my bed praying about what I should do. I rehearsed the lines to an old song in my prayer. “Lord send me anywhere only go with me. Lay any burden on me only sustain me, sever any tie save the tie that binds me to thy heart…” When I got to that last line, I stopped. I could not ask the Lord to cut any tie. My friends were not going to Christian college and I did not want to leave them. After a long while I surrendered everything that night and told the Lord I would do what He wanted. It was not an easy choice, but neither was dying on the cross an easy choice for Him.
I went where God wanted me to go. God gave me new friends and soon my friends back home, touched by my surrender, came to the same bible college as well. I had new friends and the old ones too. One of those friends now serves with me in the same ministry and I see him all the time. I never would have dreamed back then, God had all this in store. We can never out give God. There were great times in college and few regrets. Days were not always easy, but I always had the confidence that I was in the center of God’s perfect will. There is no better place to be.
What do you think are the toughest areas of the self-life we have to fight when determining God’s will? Does it always have to be a struggle? Post a comment.
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