You ARE The Boss of Me

It's funny how things come around in circles. I remember the first blog I wrote whilst here on my DTS and how I wrote about authority. I never really thought I had a problem with it as much as I did, but this week showed me the truth. This week showed me a lot of things.
Lordship week was the topic, and it was such an intense, but such a needed week.
Lordship is, in essence, understanding and then accepting the fact that Jesus not only loves us, but is also our King and Lord. Its such a difficult thing to put into practice in your life, because we are all prideful and think we know best and want to run our own lives. But the message of the Cross doesn't end at the salvation of our sins, there is another step that is so often forgotten, that step is submitting to Gods authority. Modern christianity is plagued by the problem of forgetting Gods Lordship in their message of love. Their needs to be an equal amount of love and authority conveyed to people. If its all love, people abuse that and we get lukewarm christians so prevalent today. If its all Lordship you get the “repent sinner” and fire and brimstone style preaching so popular years ago. Both of these aspects are in the gospel and are needed for a full relationship with God.
But there is a reason its so hard to come under God's Lordship, its because He is Big, Mighty, Powerful and we don't understand Him. And if we submit to him we have to do what he says, which means we have to be willing to go where He asks and say what He wants us to when he wants us to. And this could mean doing wild, crazy things that the world says is ridiculous. But if you trust enough in Him, and know Him well enough then it gets much easier.
So this week we got to know Him better. We gave up aspects of our lives to His care, got forgiveness for things holding us back and we worshipped him fully and lost so much fear of man and gained so much fear and understanding of God.
But now is the hard part. Doing it daily. Jesus told us to take up our cross daily, which means we need to lay down ourselves every day. And every day I am trying to, its hard, but I know this is the life I want to and am called to lead. Because only the best will do for me.