Message-ID: <27024569.1075855500996.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:00:00 -0700 (PDT) From: marketplace@lists.crosswalk.com To: jeff.king@enron.com Subject: TGIF Marketplace Meditation -- The Door of Full Surrender Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "Crosswalk.com" X-To: X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Jeff_King_Jun2001\Notes Folders\Private folders\Personal X-Origin: King-J X-FileName: jking.nsf T O D A Y G O D I S F I R S T Marketplace Meditations by Os Hillman The Door of Full Surrender But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. - (Job 23:10) I was recently sitting with the leader of a marketplace organization as he described a question he poses to businesspeople. "What if there were two doors to choose from; behind one door was the complete will of God for your life and behind the other door was how life could be according to your own preference. Which door would you choose?" The struggle for most lies in the desire to follow God completely and the fear of what might be behind the door of full surrender. Most of us desire to follow God, but few of us will do it at any cost. We do not really believe that God loves us to the degree that we are willing to give Him complete permission to do as He wills in us. If we desire to fully walk with Christ, there is a cost. We may give intellectual assent and go along with His principles and do fine; however, if we are fully given over to Him and His will for our life, it will be a life that will have adversity. The Bible is clear that humans do not achieve greatness without having their sinful will broken. This process is designed to create a nature change in each of us, not just a habit change. The Bible calls it circumcision. Circumcision is painful, bloody, and personal. If God has plans to greatly use you in the lives of others, you can expect your trials to be even greater than those of others. Why? Because, like Joseph who went through greater trials than most patriarchs, your calling may have such responsibility that God cannot afford to entrust it to you without ensuring your complete faithfulness to the call. He has much invested in you on behalf of others. He may want to speak through your life to a greater degree than through another. The events of your life would become the frame for the message He wants to speak through you. Do not fear the path that God may lead you on. Embrace it. For God may bring you down a path in your life to ensure the reward of your inheritance. "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" (2 Cor. 4:17). ----------- This daily devotional is published and distributed by Crosswalk.com. It is written by Os Hillman, president of Marketplace Leaders, located in Atlanta, GA. His email address is . For more articles and books by Os Hillman you may visit his web site at http://www.marketplaceleaders.org. Additional devotionals are available from Crosswalk.com: ----------- To read the Current Feature Story from ReligionToday, go to http://religiontoday.crosswalk.com/CurrentFeatureStory/ For today's complete News Summary from ReligionToday, go to http://religiontoday.crosswalk.com/CurrentNewsSummary/ ----------- For Copyright Terms go to http://www.crosswalk.com/info/copyright ____________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO_______________________ * You subscribed to Marketplace Meditations as: < jeff.king@enron.com > * To unsubscribe from this newsletter immediately, click here: < http://link.crosswalk.com/UM/U.ASP?A3.12.261895 > If that link is not clickable, simply copy and paste it into your browser window. * To change your address: unsubscribe your old address and then subscribe your new address. * To subscribe, send an email to: < SUBSCRIBE-marketplace@lists.crosswalk.com > or go to < http://www.crosswalk.com/lists > for a complete list of our newsletters. * Copyright , 2001 Crosswalk.com, Inc. and its Content Providers. All rights reserved. ____________________________________________________________