Surrender

I drove over to Life Group tonight (I'll post on Life Group another time -- I LOVE it) and was struck by Misty Edward's song, "Surrender." The words are so simple, but as I sung them over and over again, I felt my spirit come into agreement.

All I want is You to have Your way
You are the Potter and I am the clay
All I need is You to have Your way
You are Creator and I'm what You've made
Finally I Surrender
You are God I am man
You are sovereign

More than anything else, above anything else, all I want is for God to have His way in my life. If I could boil everything down, I want to have done God's Will and lived His Way. I want to have loved with His love and looked at people through His vision of grace, mercy and justice. There's something to this discipleship stuff. It's changing me...LONG before I even head up to Seattle. This Life Group is not a temporary thing, it's connecting me to the places and people that I am supposed to meet now and in the future -- I feel it. I said to a friend the other day that the Lord has locked me into a collision course and that there is nothing I can do to stop it at this point. He's already made the edict that certain things will happen in my life. I will go certain places and meet specific people. There is a purpose in all of this.

Some days I get caught up in the planning, the analyzing and the deep thinking. I've got to remember to let it all go. As I've said before, if the Lord has called me out of the boat, then I've got to go. It doesn't matter if it is Seattle for a time or for forever. It doesn't matter if it's planting an Every Nation church in the East Bay or SF Bay. He will work the details out. I try to throw myself in the mix and cast vision -- a time in Seattle where I learn about BIG ministry and become equipped so that I can come back and throw myself back into the Bay Area with my whole heart--but I know that I'm limiting God and that there's something I'm missing here. The pounding in my heart of the nations--where does that fit in?

All I want is You to have Your way.
You are the Potter and I am the clay.