He Never Relents
09/15/2010
re·lent [ri-lent]
—verb (used without object)
to soften in feeling, temper, or determination; become more mild, compassionate, or forgiving.
—Synonyms
bend, yield.
You won’t relent until you have it all… –Misty Edwards
God wants ALL of me.
The art of losing myself has often meant to me that in specific areas of my life I have to lay things down. Today I was discussing one of these with my best friend Ali… she hit me with this text:
Refocus your eyes. Count it all as loss. Every friendship, every situation. It’s all Jesus. That’s all it should be… God won’t relent until He has all of you. Your attention, your feelings, your emotions… He lets us choose him or the other thing. So He’ll wait patiently.
It was like… what a thought. He wants it all. It’s all about HIM–NOT me. It’s not about my future or my aspirations, my likes, my discomforts…. what I want…
ITS ABOUT HIM before anything else. So, when something goes differently than how I wish it would or I want something God doesn’t want me to have… I need to remember that. When my will is on auto-pilot, that’s when i get into trouble. I must be intentional. Nobody said this life was easy… but it does get easier when you stop trying to do any of it on your own.
My life is not my own.
Learning this art of losing myself is a long process… but I think that the reason it must be learned over and over is because once learned, it will stick and never waiver. It’s like learning to ride a bike. It hurts when you fall while you’re learning and for some it may take a long time but once you’ve learned, you never forget.
