Abandoned To God

There is a time when we must forsake our lives as we know it - all the dreams, plans and hopes - no matter how precious and right it might be so that we can live fully for Christ. Otherwise, our hearts remain divided, always looking back at what could have been or should have been of a life we really wanted to experience. Until we surrender to Christ, we can't truly enter into the joy of a life Christ has in store for us.

Abandoning your life to Christ to some may be a reckless, bold and foolish decision. But think of the many believers across the earth, many we rarely hear or read in the news, who suffer persecution and even death because they refuse to bow to the god of this age and forsake Christ. In losing their lives, they discover life in Christ that few of us know even after many years of walking with Him.

Most of us gave our lives to Christ at an altar in a church or perhaps when a friend prayed with us. Sadly, most of us like myself, while we freely confessed the Lord as Savior, we didn't leave everything behind to follow Him with an undivided heart.

God is patient and kind to work out those places in our hearts until we surrender fully to Him.

Peter was so proud to tell Jesus he abandoned all to follow him. But Jesus responds, "Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's. But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.' (Mark 10:29-30, KJV).

To those who abandon their lives to God will find it in the end. There is no loss in Christ only eternal gain. Live for Him alone, beloved, it's what truly matters in this life. Homes, land, possessions will all pass away (or get stolen, moldy, rusted and decayed) but what we gain in Christ will never be taken away!