Vibrance Ministries: Surrender to the Law of Life

Do you hate your life? Surrender to the Law of Life.

To hate Life = To hate God = To hate Yourself

Let’s be honest, when the fires of life sear through our skin and get into our bones it is easy to hate life. When these fires keep returning over and over, we take it personally. We turn that hate upon ourselves. When the fires persist despite our ardent faith, we get to hating God also.

To hate your life is to hate your God. To hate God is to hate yourself.

God is life. God is not just the creator of life, God is the spirit of life. No matter what life feels like in this moment, you exist in grace, because you exist in God. As broken and fragmented as it may feel, your life is an act of grace.

“Your power at work in me, I’m broken gracefully .. here I am Lord, arms wide open. Pouring out my life, gracefully broken. I surrender.”*

It’s hard to see it at times, but your life is so deliberately, strategically and gracefully broken. You are not a helpless victim of life. Life is not your enemy, life does not hate you. Life treasures you. God treasures you.

Being a Christian means radical change in the way we interpret life. Toss out the old stories, Spirit said today ‘toss out the nonsense, tune in to GodSENSE’. That is what it means to be a Christian. It means we open to our God so He can teach us how to interpret life from His perspective. Particularly when we are in the trenches.

I surrender to the Lord of Life, I surrender to the Law of Life, I surrender to the Spirit of Life.

Do this exercise with me. Set a timer for ten minutes. Close your eyes, focus in, withdraw from the noise. Repeat these words slowly, savoring each word, allowing each one to settle in your mind and sink into your heart. Repeat these three sentences over and over until your timer goes off.

I surrender to the Lord of Life.

I surrender to the Law of Life.

I surrender to the Spirit of Life.

“Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you .. may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, stablish, strengthen, and settle you.” - 1 Peter 5:7,10

Surrender is our path to freedom. Wherever we are feeling attacked, defeated, oppressed or bound up in life, surrendering to our God is our way up and out. When you hate yourself, when you hate your circumstances, when you hate your life, surrender.

I surrender to the Lord of Life. We call him Jesus. He is the way, the truth and the life. He is the redeemer of life. He is the giver of life. He is the gateway to life. He is the bread of life. He is the fountain of life. He is the joy of life. He is the light of life. He is the Lord above all lords, the Lord of life.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” – Romans 8:1-2,5-6

To hate yourself is death. It is no coincidence that self-hatred walks closely with suicide. Suicide is hating life, hating self, hating God and choosing the law of death. To choose Christ is to choose the Law of Life.

I surrender to the Law of Life, which is the law of Christ. In Christ I move forward in newness of life. In Christ I learn to trust life because my life is hidden in Christ. In Christ I learn to love life because Christ is life.

I surrender to the spirit of life. The spirt of life reached into the grave where our Jesus lay and brought him into resurrection life. By the same spirit I too can walk in this world healthy, happy, victorious, purposeful and filled with a joy that defies understanding. This is the spirit of life which is in Jesus Christ.

Lord take all my broken pieces, I surrender them to you. Not because they feel meaningless and worthless, not because life has beaten me into submission. I give you my brokenness Lord, because I know you are the master potter, you know what to do with the broken pieces. I know your plan for me is more than I could even begin to imagine.

I know heavenly Father You are the breath of life in me, You are the pulse of life around me and Your heart toward me is good. Therefore Life’s will for me is good.

Lord I commit in this moment, to embracing life. However it shows up for me, because I know You are in every part of it. I know You are the master planner, I know You are a flawless orchestrator, I know You are a faithful shepherd and You know my beginning from my end.

I surrender. I surrender to the Lord of Life. I surrender to the Law of Life. I surrender to the Spirit of Life. I trust you Lord with my life. I know that in the end, I will be delightfully surprised.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” - Jeremiah 29:11-13

Authors Note:

Before closing, I take a few minutes to do a heart-tuitive interpretation of today’s message.

It’s all about attunement and receptivity. Are you receptive to the energy and Law of Life, or are you receptive to the energy and Law of Death? What is it that you tune into, buy into, and claim within yourself and within your life? Both options are available to you Child of God. Which do you choose?

The Law of Sin and Death comes with judgement, condemnation and separation from God. It causes us to separate from and reject ourselves, as we feel separated from and rejected by life. It sends us on a an endless spiral of working to earn our salvation, struggling to please God or striving to buy His favor. We end up condemning ourselves over and over.

The Law of Life says, I have new life in Christ. He knows my name, every hair on my head he has numbered. I belong in this world, I belong in this life, I have a purpose, I have value. First because I have value to Him. Just as I am, I am worth something to God. Fractured, wounded, beaten down, broken, He sees the beauty in my brokenness. I pause and allow myself to see the beauty that He sees in me. I surrender.

My heavenly Father knows what He has planted in me. He knows the seeds that even I have yet to see. He knows the grace, He knows the glory that He put into me. He shines the light of Christ on me, and in all the broken places, His glory shines through. I am radiant. Just as I am.

I am my Lord’s glory, just waiting for the world to see. But first, I must see what He sees in me. The glory of Christ in me is confidence, security, resilience, buoyancy. I can face anything, I can do anything through Christ who strengthens me.

The light of Christ in me is divine love. It allows me to love myself, all of myself. It allows me to love my world, everyone in it and every part of it. The love of Christ allows me to love every moment of my life no matter how life is showing up for me.

I surrender to the Lord of Life, I surrender to the Law of Life, I surrender to the Spirit of Life. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Author: Max Patrick

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