Have Your Way
For the past few weeks I have been hearing the words to this song ring in my head. The words were, “Have your way in this place, if it is not pleasing to you take it away, have your way.” The song is by Jabari Johnson feat and Todd Galberth, it is entitled Have Your Way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4e0ZS9nLc
As I am on this journey to out love others I am finding that love is putting aside my desires and allowing God to have His way in me. I have always prayed for God to have full control of my life and to have His way. I just did not realize the crushing of my flesh through loving others is giving Him His way.
I am understanding that the more I give over to God in my actions to others, God is having His way. It is a true fight of the “will” to let go. The other day we were at a restaurant where you order your meal at the counter and they bring it out to you. Everything else is pretty much self serve. I walked over to the drink station to grab some water, napkins and silverware, but when I got to the water station this lady saw me and just raced in front of me. I could feel the Holy Spirit holding my lips tight and not letting the words flow out of me. At that moment I could not feel any love in my heart.
I asked God how could it be that I am out loving people when I do not feel love in my heart? He reminded me that He did not feel the love when He was being beaten. He felt every bit of the pain. We move with the action of love not by what we feel. When a mother gives birth to a child she does not feel love when she is going into labor; she feels the pain.
When we show love to those who may not be so kind to us, that action does not always feel good! Our emotions may feel something totally different in that moment, but later God brings our emotions around.
Later in the day as I reflected on what happened to me in the restaurant, I was so thankful that God used me to show His love to a women who absolutely knew she was wrong. My actions allowed for His love to start working in her heart!
Lord, have your way in this place. If it is not pleasing to you, please take it away.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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