Seize Me!

Wow, since my last post I can’t stop thinking about the word that God had given me in Philippians 4:9…Do!  I can’t tell you how many times I have went back to that scripture and then I began to search the Bible for specific instructions on doing.  So many times I was lead to scriptures found in Matthew 5, 6, and 7, and if you are not familiar with those chapters in Matthew, it is The Sermon on the Mount given by Jesus.  I have read those chapters over and over again and each time God has revealed something new to me.  It is one of the most powerful messages that Jesus gave while on this earth and he teaches us so many things through this message. 

As I think about Philippians 4:9 along with The Sermon on the Mount I can’t help but think about the importance of surrendering my life to Jesus Christ.  You see there is no way I can do what God has called me to do without total surrender.  Are you totally surrendered to Jesus Christ?  Have you allowed him to seize you…to seize your heart, to seize your soul, to seize your mind, to seize all that you have?  Have you?  Have I?  I ask myself this all the time and sometimes my answer is a resounding YES and then other times I think ‘what am I doing, why am I trying to do everything myself?’  I have come to the conclusion that it is hard for me to surrender everything 100% of the time; so I pray ‘Lord seize me, take me over, I can’t do this myself, I need to let go of everything and just let you seize everything in me’.  I do want to follow the directions of our Lord and do what he has asks in Philippians 4:9, but I, nor you, can truly do what Jesus has called us to do without total surrender, without allowing Jesus Christ to seize our lives.  So I challenge each of you reading this to take the time to lay at the feet of Jesus and give it all to him, to allow your Father to seize your life so that you can live the life that you were created to live!