SET APART... BUT ONE!
My LENTEN “GIVE UP” this year, twenty-twenty one, is to “give up myself”, surrender the control of & plans over my life, my thoughts about myself, others & things, my concern about what others think, say or do, lay down my life completely for JESUS as HE did for me... HE did this for us ALL: the good, the bad & the ugly!
I have “given up” many, many meaningless things throughout the years, however consciously I could not disrespect the LORD yet another year in giving up some frivolous little thing that means absolutely nothing to me, really.
My thought is “what would JESUS want me to give up” for HIS GOOD, for my own good?
It comes down to CHOICE, as it was in the beginning in the Garden of Eden, with the CREATOR GOD... the CHOICE to OBEY HIM or NOT?
I CHOOSE TO BE IN THIS WORLD, BUT DEFINITELY NOT OF IT. And, NO this is certainly NOT an easy “give up” to do, the most CHALLENGING of anything I have ever attempted to do.
A quote just came to mind, so I looked it up & found this: “Words from a poem by Robert Browning, suggesting that, to achieve anything worthwhile, a person should attempt even those things that may turn out to be impossible.” ~ dictionary.com
“A MAN’S REACH SHOULD EXCEED HIS GRASP, OR WHAT’S A HEAVEN FOR?” ~ Robert Browning, Victorian Poet
Set apart, but ONE... with GOD!
SHARING NOTES OF INSPIRATION from the pages of “A Collection of Poems, Prose, Quotes, Epiphanies, Affirmations, Musings & Photos by Elle” 2020? 2021?