Standing At A Cross Road

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This is what the Lord says: 'stand at the cross road and look,  ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls'.  But you said,  'we will not walk in it'. Jer 6:16

We have been speaking about exercising our trust in healthy ways and our trust being in the Lord, among other related subjects.  Trust is not able to be exercised unless there is an opportunity presented.  Feelings arise, emotions stimulate and give us a propensity to act.  There will be a defining moment where we give into a direction and become committed to the motion.  

Think about when we come to a cross road and not knowing for sure which way to go.  What would happen if we had not been taught regarding yielding and right of way?  This is from March 2010:

                                                             

Do you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God)?    Romans 6:16 AMP

Yielding

The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I yielded myself to Him.

If a child gives in to selfishness, he will find it to be the most enslaving tyranny on earth. There is no power within the human soul itself that is capable of breaking the bondage of the nature created by yielding. For example, yield for one second to anything in the nature of lust, and although you may hate yourself for having yielded, you become enslaved to that thing. (Remember what lust is— "I must have it now," whether it is the lust of the flesh or the lust of the mind.) No release or escape from it will ever come from any human power, but only through the power of redemption. You must yield yourself in utter humiliation to the only One who can break the dominating power in your life, namely, the Lord Jesus Christ. ". . . He has anointed Me . . . to proclaim liberty to the captives . . ." ( Luke 4:18 and Isaiah 61:1 ).

When you yield to something, you will soon realize the tremendous control it has over you. Even though you say, "Oh, I can give up that habit whenever I like," you will know you can’t. You will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you willingly yielded to it. It is easy to sing, "He will break every fetter," while at the same time living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. But yielding to Jesus will break every kind of slavery in any person’s life. by Oswald Chambers

I do not know of a more unsettling predicament  than being tested in a situation intended to show that things are not what they appear.  If once we had to protect ourselves from people that misused their power or neglected to love and protect us when we were vulnerable to their dominance, it is quiet precarious if we, ourselves are the only dynamic which has changed to exercise our trust muscle.  But this  I know:  God loves us and wants what is best for us. 

Knowing that caused me to try really hard to understand why, when I was doing nothing wrong but protecting and respecting myself were all these bad situations happening. What he loving showed me was that although I had survived bad situations I had tried to handle them in my own strength and understanding. I was in danger and treated unloving at times; however, He had rescued and delivered me from that so that I could live a better life. If I had continued to lives as though I were not free, I would never have received my freedom. I would have been free, yet lived as a prisoner to those that I had been liberated from.

I pray that we all live in the liberty that Christ has given us. And follow His guidance into everlasting peace.

With love,
Candace

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