Commitment & Surrender

"You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the #key to your life. And if you love and obey the Lord, you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” Deuteronomy 30:20

Dearest Father,

The day I have fully committed and surrendered to you is the most fulfilling day of my life!! The day in which the search was over, thirst was quenched, and everything made sense. All my life experiences had brought me to that moment; the seeking for meaning had ceased as meaning was there all along, YOU!

Talking to my uncle, he said he was happy that I had found what I was looking for, it was not that I was lost, but that I had found myself.

This wholeness I feel by surrender is not because I simply answered to my heart's calling. As all the years in which I did believe in you, I did not live my life committed to you. It is only when I made that step that I had been gifted with an unexplainable joy that all the gold in the world could never buy it.

It's what the apostle Michael Orokpo explains in his preaching The Weight of Glory; that we are not creatures of time but of eternity, that it is not the amount of birthdays we celebrate but how much of the glory of God we capture during this existence.

" For the ones with eyes to see and ears to hear!"

I think that all my life I was in this quest and every place I lived, the people I had met, the jobs I had; all played a part in the understanding of the bigger picture, because although I was learning so much; my soul was always yearning for more, for your perfection, for improving my condition, for inner beauty, I was looking for high moral models. I was relentless, I was called a perfectionist, critical but only because I wanted more not in physical or material assets, I wanted to be a better version of myself and I was taught by my earthly father to always seek to improve oneself in every level as well as your work and so forth. So, it impacted others around me too.

Today I feel an incredible peace, I have joy independent from my circumstances, my spirit is satisfied; I feel like Paul said in Philippians 1:21, "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain". I know who I am in you, I feel blessed for you love me and I know my purpose!

The past few weeks I have come across so many people during our soul winning mission; people that fear to commit and surrender, some because they don't know you, others because they feel they don't deserve you; and others whose hearts are hardened as stone. Father, I pray in Jesus mighty name that you fill them with Love, touch their hearts given them a heart of flesh so that they can come to know you and experience how wonderful it is to have a friend like you. A perfect friend and above all our Holy Creator and Father! Amen.