Me: Prodigal, you don’t look happy about your day.
Prodigal: There’s a yellow jacket in the outhouse kinda day.
Me: Well, I am glad your here!
This is from C.S. Lewis
To trust Him means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.
To trust, to obey and to submit. This means glory and love for our Lord! It may be a dying of the flesh to glorify the Lord but that is part of the submission.
Titus 3:8
This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
