Dear Ones,
Hope you have a wonderful day! The weather is turning warmer so it will be good for swimming at the lake! We plan to go for the weekend. This morning I am making egg dishes etc. and this afternoon we are invited over to friends for coffee and fellowship.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Would we say we are open to God and that our self-will is giving way to doing His will? If so, we will come to experience His love in a deeper way, for His will is meant to trump ours. It all boils down to who is our Master? Is it the Lord or do we put ourselves in that place?  We can’t serve two masters and if we don’t submit to God, we serve ourselves and that is a very narrow world. Paul says in Romans 6 that we are slaves to the one we obey, and in the 18th verse he says, ”Once you were freed from sin you then became slaves of righteousness.”

The big question then is whom do we obey? We are free when we obey the Lord. If we look back on our lives, it becomes quite evident whom we serve by the decisions we have made. But it is good when we can admit and deal with the many ways we are enslaved by our own will and humbly come to the Lord for forgiveness. Then we can follow the Lord and let Him control our life, and His love helps us displace our selfishness. Often it boils down to saying “no” to ourselves and “yes” to Him.

Perhaps we can all think of people who always seem to get their way. Are they happy and liked by others, and are they growing? Probably not. If they only live to please themselves and their own pleasure, they are not concerned about others. Their world is a very small.

As we seek daily to do God’s will there are often times He uses others in our lives to guide us in His will. If we are humble and open to the Lord, we will choose His way over ours and be open to hear from those He sends. We all have toxins within us that need to be neutralized and God uses others to help us see what needs to go. Let us be open to God and do His will from a heart of faith and obedience.

Challenge for today: Ask the Lord to help you die to self-will and do His will from your heart.
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy