An attitude of total humility and total surrender to the Will of the Father

The Lord wants to instill in us that attitude of complete humility, complete subjection, total surrender to the Lordship and the Will of God. In this attitude of total surrender to the Lord lies our possibility to be truly useful servants and to be promoted, and advanced in the Kingdom of God, and to acquire and achieve all the greatness that God wants us to achieve.

So, paradoxically, when we learn to consider ourselves servants, that is, slaves of God, that is when God exalts us and can lift us to a very high level. And that fundamental truth that later I am going to qualify with another very interesting idea almost contrary to the one that I have just exposed here, but which is complementary to the first, that truth of total surrender, total subjection, recognition of our own smallness and insignificance Before the lordship and sovereignty of God, that truth is exposed throughout all of Scripture, and we have to try to enter it and cultivate it, and make it a central part of our mind and our way of seeing ourselves in our relationship with God. , because God sees the heart.

And when He sees that attitude of total surrender and submission to Him, and of recognition of His greatness and His total Lordship, God is encouraged and encouraged then to bless us and use us, and put us in places of great influence in the Kingdom of God, but it has to be there sincerely and naturally.

And I see that truth explained everywhere in Scripture. For example, it occurred to me a moment ago before starting this study, if one looks for example in Psalm 131, Psalm 131, David says, "Jehovah, my heart is not puffed up, neither is my eyes lifted up, I did not walk in greatness, nor in things too sublime for me. In truth, I have behaved and I have silenced my soul "and here is the key, he says:" like a child weaned from its mother; like a weaned child is my soul. "

Don't you see here that attitude of total humility and total surrender to the Will of the Father? Do we not see in this posture described by the psalmist that he has behaved before Jehovah like a child weaned from his mother? That is, what David is saying is: Father, acknowledge my total surrender to You, my total recognition that I am like a weaned child, I am fragile, I am defenseless, totally dependent on You, as a child has no right to govern itself. to himself, as he depends on his mother for everything he can do and on the protection of his mother, and has no will of his own, in the same way I have behaved before You Lord.

And the reason why David is describing that attitude is because he knows that God is pleased when a man, a woman, assumes that attitude of total dependence on the Lord. It is that quality of recognizing the lordship and greatness of God that moves the heart of the Father and that we have to cultivate every day. That attitude of fragility, of total need for God, of total surrender to the greatness and lordship of the Father, of amazement at the greatness, holiness, the Power of God and of recognizing all possible rights to the Father.

Because the opposite attitude is the attitude of rebellion, of self-sufficiency, of governing ourselves, of deciding for ourselves that even when sometimes we do not express it verbally, God discerns it in our heart and His Spirit is saddened, and moves it to He to turn away from us and not bless us as He wants.

When God discerns that attitude of David as a child weaned from his mother, fragile and defenseless and totally dependent on her, when God discerns that attitude in us His Fatherly heart is moved and then God is willing to bless us in all possible ways, And that is why it is so important that we cultivate that attitude.

Another passage that occurs to me in this sense of total amazement and of always being like thinking of God before we find ourselves in the Psalm, I think it is Psalm 139, I am not totally sure but do not criticize me if it is not, But I know it by heart, and there the psalmist says: "Where can I go from Your Spirit, and where can I flee from Your Presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there, and if I make my footstool in hell, behold there You're."

The psalmist in all that Psalm speaks of being formed in the womb of his mother, that God wrote every episode, every design that is in his body and in his life, and that the Lord is everything, right? and that you have your entire life under your control. Over and over again one sees in the Bible that exposition of the Lordship of God and the smallness of man.

And we must cultivate that double attitude. On the one hand, the greatness, the total control of God over our life, and on the other hand our smallness, our fragility, our simplicity before the power of God. The man as the flower of the field says, that the wind passed through it and perished, and its place will no longer know it.

So that idea that the Power of God is much greater than our fragility and that in that attitude there is great power, and that truth that as we see, goes from the Old Testament to the very end of the New Testament, and we must cultivate that, And that is why the Lord uses that parable that was our starting point, that when we have done everything that God has commanded us, we must still consider ourselves as useless servants.

God bless you and we will continue to work on this because it is such an essential and important truth in the life of every believer. Until our next meditation.