We have to drop everything to see the Glory of God

Until you learn to submit your life to the Lord, until you become a humble, simple servant, totally surrendered to the Lord Jesus Christ, you cannot be greatly used by the Lord.

We have to ask the Lord that pass us through that process, in which our independence is subject to what the Lord wants. We simply obey when God asks for something of us. We have to ask the Lord to take us to that position, of what I would call preventive obedience, where we are already so treated by the Holy Spirit that at the slightest pressure from the Word of God to our lives and the specific call of God to our lives. lives, our being like soft wax humbles itself before the request and the claims of the Kingdom of God, and we put aside any request.

We have then reached that point where everything is surrendered to Him, everything is subject to Him, every dream, every prerogative, every plan about the future, every affection, every belonging, every dream of greatness or influence in the world, of profit. material, everything is subject to the Lord, available to Him whenever He wants, including the reasonings of our mind. I believe that is why the Lord Jesus Christ says, unless we become like children, we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Unless we believe, we cannot see the Glory of the Lord. Unless we reach that point of complete surrender of our being to the Lord, we cannot see His Glory, we cannot experience His great blessings that He wants to give us.

We have to reach that point at which the apostle Paul reached when he said: And I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. When we get to that point then we are ready as Paul himself did, to drop everything. These men when they see the Glory of God manifested through Jesus Christ, it says that: "Leaving everything, putting aside their boats", they put them ashore, "and leaving everything they followed him."

Until you left everything, we saw this also in the case of Levi, and the other disciples, until they did not leave everything. And we have to leave everything, and not only leave everything in the material sense, but also in our hearts and minds, we have to undergo a surgical operation, so to speak, psychological, emotional, where we sign a blank paper to the Lord. and we preemptively detach ourselves from everything we love and everything we are and what we hold valuable or desirable. And we give the Lord a total title of our life, and we say to Him: Lord, do what You want now, including my reasoning, plans, doubts, fears, social values, ways of seeing morality or ethics, and I I leave everything in Your hands so that You define me and make me conform to Your image and likeness.

When we reach that point of total surrender of our entire being, then we can see the Glory of God and the Lord can perform his supernatural miracles. The supernatural power of God cannot be manifested through reason, through the flesh, through emotions, through an unbroken will, it can only flow freely and fluidly through a vessel, a conduit that be totally subject to Him, hollowed out by God's dealings that then allows divine Grace to flow in an uninterrupted, powerful, fluid and effective way. May that be your experience and mine too, that we can surrender everything, leave everything at the feet of the Lord, so that He can use us greatly and manifest His Glory to us and through us. This meditation is part of a series of five short messages on miraculous fishing and the calling from the apostle Peter to the ministry. In them, Dr. Miranda discusses practical aspects of Christian growth and service:

1. God wants to work with you and your resources
2. God calls you to a process of deep sanctification
3. God can change your category
4. If God calls you you have to jump
5. We have to leave everything to be able to see the Glory of God