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That Man

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You are my Savior. I don’t have to save myself today.

You are my Lord. I don’t have to master myself today.

You are my Father. I belong in a loving home today.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says.  – Andy Stanley

Today looks daunting; but today I serve a Man who predicted His own death and resurrection.

Today I feel broken beyond help; but today I serve a Redeemer who touched dead people and they came back to life.

Today feels impossible; but today I serve a Father who serves me, and who has proclaimed all things possible.

Today I feel lonely; but today I serve a Friend who has never and will never leave me alone.

Today I suffocate with worry; but today I serve a Lord who knows me and my needs and delights in providing for me.

Today I want to save myself; but today I serve a God who sacrificed self and emerged from the other side to tell the story.

Today Satan tempts me to settle; but today I serve a God who “did not spare even His own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?” (Romans 8:32 NLT)

Today looks big; but I serve a God who is bigger.

Savior and Lord

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Two months ago I wrote in my prayer journal, “I don’t have to save myself. I don’t have to provide for myself. I don’t have to know what I’m doing.” I have permission from the King of kings to breathe, to rest. He is doing the saving, the providing, the knowing.

Today I wrote this: “If God is my Savior and I don’t have to save myself, is it also true that if God is my Lord I don’t have to be lord over myself?” I have tried to master myself with little success. Still bitterness and resentment, fear, selfishness, domineering, judgement, and anger spill out all over the place. Proverbs 26:11 describes me well: “As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.”

I have shied away from calling Jesus my Lord because it sounds so… authoritarian. But I have been upside down, standing on my head, and God is offering to put me on my feet. Jesus as my Lord is not more expectations and demands on my performance. It is an offering of His performance over mine. He says, let Me be Lord. Here is My power to master selfishness. His lordship is a gift.

Oh Lord, I repent. I have misunderstood You. I have feared Your beautiful gift. Thank You for continuing to extend it until I am ready to reach out, to kneel down, to bow in humble gratitude for Your offer to be my Lord. I accept.