Give Everything

We should give everything we have to God, and I don’t mean only our praise, worship, love, etc. Our Heavenly Father wants all of us, and wants us to be sanctified and made holy by His love. That can only happen when we stop holding back.

I mean we have to offer up willingly our pride, our ego, our anger at a loved one. We can’t only offer up what we think will be pleasing in our minds: good days, easy sacrifice, etc.

Unless we can willingly give God all of ourselves, we are restricted in how much of His love we can partake. I say this out of implementation. Very recently, I felt this was revealed in a moment of weakness and pride; so I started giving God my anger at a situation. I prayed silently “Father please accept my anger at X. Please take it from me, it is too much for me alone.” I immediately felt like I had been consoled. I was still frustrated, but not to the chaotic degree I was in. This was something we could together that I could not do on my own. Now I pray something like that out loud when possible as well.

I had never really thought about how much I was intrinsically holding back from God. Like I knew He knew, but I didn’t make the decision to offer it up. I would ask for intercession, but not actually offering it to Him. I would end up offering what I wanted and not everything.

God is a loving Father, and truly wants all of us. Otherwise His grace cannot do all that He intends for us.

Let’s pray for each other, and give even our most undesirable parts to God. So we can receive His love and be healed.