Be His

BE HIS.

What does it mean to belong to someone?  If you're dating someone then you probably feel this attachment.  If you are a part of a team-be it basketball, cheerleading, football, band, glee club, chorus or chess club...then you know that feeling of being a part of a bigger, collective someone.  How great it feels to be united and to accomplish something.  

So what does it mean to be HIS?  A child of the King.  To belong to the Maker of all the heavens and earth.  He who formed you in the womb.  He who knows the number of every hair on your head.  He who has numbered your days.  Do you really know who you belong to?  I have to confess that I often forget.  I get caught up in the struggles and problems of my day to day life and I forget Who it is that I serve.

Do you believe that the God of Abraham, Moses and Joshua is your God?  Do you act like you believe it?  For our actions reveal what we really believe.  We have the promise that our God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.  Our modern society may claim that the Bible is old and outdated but the reality is that there is nothing new under the sun.  The world may look different and may have changed in many ways, yet man in his carnal state still thirsts after and desires the same things.  God has not changed in His infinite power, wisdom and love.   

We still serve the same God of Daniel, Esther, and David.  Maybe you need to take some time and dig back in the Word and relish the LIFE of these stories.  Ask God to remove your unbelief.  God STILL takes us out of the mouths of lions!  He still parts the Red Sea!  He still places His people exactly where He wants them "for such a time as this".  He still delivers His people out of the fiery furnace.  The only thing that limits His power is our unbelief.  Do people look at you and say "I want to know the God they serve"?  I pray it is so.  You must pray that this is so.  Do you make others hungry for God?

The only way you can ever hold this power is by being His.  Taking the time every day to rest in His presence.  To get away from all the noise and busyness of life and listen only to His voice-turn off your I-Phone, computer, I-Pod and get alone with Him.  Listen for the Holy Spirit to direct you.  Talk to Him constantly throughout your day.  Praise Him for all the good things He has given you.  Beg Him to give you His strength when hardships and trials come your way.  Pray that they push you to Him and change you to look more like Him.  Hudson Taylor, an international missionary, said "It doesn't matter how great the pressure is.  What really matters is where the pressure lies, whether it comes between me and God or whether it presses me nearer His heart."  

Matthew 16:25 says "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it."  The choice is yours; will you be His?  You can trust that while it will be difficult, it will all be worth it in the end.