Negotiate and Obey

「順服 is really a big lesson to learn for Christians.」阿Mie說得好！

To negotiate is to refuse giving up. We refuse to give up before God because we do not believe what is prepared by God for us will be better than what we have or what we want. Because we are attached to things or people around us, which and who are what define who we are -- we think (see my next blog). We're afraid that we forget who we are if we do not take grasp of those things or people. When God is trying to take away those things and want our true and new-born self (which is so precious that God sacrificed His only Son for it!) to be revealed, we hesitate, we hide, we escape, we deny, we refuse and reject... and of course we negotiate too if we got nowhere to go.

Somehow most of the time I think we're trying to earn the best of both worlds by being a God-fearing Christian but at the same time also grasping as much as we can in this world -- the materialistic life, the people, the fame, the status, the achievement, the knowledge... -- never think of giving up ("surrender" is the better word) these things to God. I think of a song we sing so often:

假若我有無限智慧，我甘棄主腳下；
假若我有財物滿貫，我交給主手中；
我願這生獻呈為你，願明白你心意！
「不用獻我財物智慧，將心給我！」

Afterall, it is a matter of how much we trust our Lord, isn't it?