"He Won't Let Go!" -3

"But Thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I might requite them." (Psalms 41:10) I think this will be it, but I can't promise anything; I always pray that God would speak, not me. But here is the thing that Jesus shocked everyone with when He came on the scene, because His message was all about love; loving even your enemies, and repaying good for bad treatment; turning the other cheek, and offering them another chance to slap you, if that is what they want to do. These were hard things to except, let alone to practice in our every day lives; but they are very possible when we have the love of God within us, just as it was possible for Jesus to demonstrate these things in His own life, as He went to the cross. So what is key in these impossible practices? What is it that makes or breaks us from accomplishing God's will in our lives, and not our own? Well it's not that God is not willing to give us everything we need to make it happen, because He is more then willing to do that; and it's not because God has removed His had from us, as to let us do things on our own, because He never let's go of His children. However, when it comes to doing things either the hard way or the easy way, the key ingredient to the easy way with God is our humility; which is also the key to this verse above, as David cries, "But Thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me". What ever the case, or what ever the cause, our hearts should cry mercy; that is where humility starts, at the foot of the cross, begging God to have mercy upon us, and asking Him to raise us up; not to give us strength within our selves to rise, but that His Spirit would rise up in us, making us into the image of Jesus Christ. Humility is not just bowing our heads and asking for forgiveness, it is a heart of surrender, it is letting go of all that you think that you know, and letting God rule and reign in your life. He surely is not going to let go of us, but at the same time, we need to be reaching out and grabbing hold of Him... "And Jesus called a little child unto Him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:4)