Prodigal: Help, Help!!

 

Me:  What have you done?

 

Prodigal:  I thought I could do it without asking for help.  I thought I knew how to make it through.

 

Me:  So Pride got you stuck, Prodigal?

 

Prodigal:  I guess you could say that.

 

Rachel Sinclair in her book Above Average for God talks about ways we may be humbled.

As followers of Christ, we are called to live a surrendered life.  Surrendering your life to God is about humbling yourself before God and allowing Him access to every part of who you are.  As Christians, we will be humbled before God.  However, we have a choice, We can choose to humble ourselves privately, or God will step in to do it for us publicly.

The process of being humbled by God is painful and uncomfortable.  In fact, I believe the more you resist God’s humbling, the more painful it is.  Scripture tells us that throughout our lives, He will humble us as He wants to enable us to live by the Spirit rather than the desires of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).  In the midst of being humbled, you may feel you are crashing to your knees or that your world is caving in on you.  Once you are through the fire, you can see that God stripped you of your fleshy ways only to build you back up into a new person with more Christian like character.

 

The many ways I have been humbled.  That means though God has really also changed me into a new person.  He has added something new to who I am by humbling me.  You have to keep going through it right now.  This is the only way.  Others have been on this path and have made it through.  You can make it through too.

 

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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