Surrender To Him

"is NOT ANGRY with us for feeling that way."

IT ISN’T that our joy has left but how we deal with people. How do we think about them? How do we react? Jesus sets our example. 1 Peter 2:21-22. It takes a great deal of strength to face the hatred He faced and to love like He did. We must recognize ourselves first, and for that, we need the Holy Spirit.

I cannot tell you to seek a relationship with Him enough. Surrender to it. Especially when it strikes a nerve.

He never means to step on our nerves, but He sometimes does because that particular situation is where we’re the most sensitive. He isn’t trying to make us hardened and without feelings. That is not my point at all. He is the most sensitive Person. Jesus made this remark to His disciples when speaking of Him (Matthew 12:32). The Pharisees blamed Him for what Satan had done, and this placed them in the wrong spot (Matthew 12:24). Jesus’ reply speaks to their incorrect thinking.

I’m not here to discuss offending Him. There’s really no need. He is God, and God – Father, Son, and Spirit – are love. They are love so much greater than what we have been taught. John 3:16. It is very hard to offend God. Church talk has made it easy. Instead, for this thought, here, it is that we all individually develop areas where we are angered. Things that “set us off.” Or things that sadden us. We must recognize them and surrender them to God, knowing He knows how we feel and is NOT ANGRY with us for feeling that way.

I found myself in a difficult place recently that was not my fault. Nothing that people did. But so much of it required recognizing how I felt and seeing He loves me anyway. He loves me so much He will give and give and give again to heal all the wounded places, with not one tiny spot of disappointment in me. If you’ve ever defined “too good to be true”, He is it.

Ephesians 3:20 says He is “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.” Philippians 4:7 describes Him as peace beyond our understanding. We find out in John 3:17 and again in Romans 8:1 that He has no condemnation in Him. None. This should make us rethink our image of Him as angry, full of wrath, and vengeance. It must make us see prophecy correctly. Because we are so very wrong about John’s Revelation. The God of Peace who sent the Prince of Peace to release the peace of God through the Presence of the Spirit of God, in order to give the earth peace, has no violence in Him. None.

Violence is the behavior of sin. And God took the violence of sin and made peace forever. Nothing man ever does will cause Him to change His nature, given to us in Galatians 5:22-23. The fruit of the Spirit, capital S, are the end results of all Jesus did on the cross. He changed everything.

Love prevailed. John 3:16
Joy prevailed. Hebrews 12:2
Peace prevailed. Colossians 1:20
Patience prevailed. John 17:6
Gentleness prevailed. Matthew 11:29
Goodness prevailed. John 10:11
Trust in God prevailed. Hebrews 12:2
Meekness prevailed. Matthew 11:29
Self-control prevailed. Luke 23:46

There’s no going back to before salvation. Not for anyone – Jew or Gentile. Believer or non-believer. There’s no reinstating the damage of Babylon. I call it that because the majority of John’s Revelation is history, not prophecy. This is stated right in chapter 1: He is “the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come (Verse 8).”

Jesus IS (present). We see the churches as present day. Jesus WAS (past). The book of Revelation shows the fall of Babylon (confusion) and the history of Satan’s destruction. Jesus IS TO COME (future). The end of death and all sorrow has been decreed. God’s judgment of mercy and regret will come in peace. That is who He is, and what we do not understand of what is said, we must lay at His feet.

And not argue. Here, again, is my point. If all of that ruffles your feathers, then recognize it and turn it over to Him. Simply say, “You take it,” every time it returns into your grasp. Because where we want to strike out, to swing a sword, He has already proven for all time that His way of healing is nothing like that. Jesus laid His will in the Spirit’s grasp and trusted Him even in death, and as a result, He is without sin and fully alive forever.

The world wanted a war. They were healed at Calvary.

“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:” (1 Peter 2:21-22)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
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