Becoming a Disciple of Jesus: He Demands Our All

Morning

I have just taken this from C.S Lewis Institute.org from a book written by John White titled The Cost of Commitment.

If this doesnt move you to give Christ your all,i dont know what will.

" Once I had a premonition that my wife and infant son

would be killed in a flying accident. We were to travel separately

from the U.S. to Bolivia, South America. She would

fly via Brazil, Buenos Aires, then north to Bolivia. I was to

visit Mexico, several Central American countries, Venezuela,

Colombia and other countries, to strengthen Christian

work among students, before joining them in Bolivia.

The premonition came with sickening certainty just before

we parted on the night of a wild snowstorm. I felt I was a

cowardly fool as I drove away and saw Lorrie silhouetted

in the yellow light of the doorway, surrounded

by swirling

snowflakes.

Why didn’t I go back and tell her I would

cancel the flights? Why didn’t I act on this foreboding?

Yet I felt a fool. I didn’t believe in premonitions—and she

would probably laugh. Besides I was late, I had to get to

the place where I would spend the night before my early

morning flight. Fear, shame, guilt, nausea, all boiled inside

me during the miserable drive to my hotel. No conversation

was possible with the man who was driving me.

In bed I tossed in misery. Of course I prayed. By faith I

was going to have it licked. Faith? In the presence of so

powerful a premonition? My mouth was dry. My limbs

shook. God was a million miles away. The hours crawled

by, each one a year of fear. Why didn’t I get dressed, hire a

car and go back to them?

“What’s the matter? Can’t you trust me?”

I was startled. Was God speaking?

“Yes, I’ll trust you—if you promise to give them back to me.”

Silence.

Then, “And if I don’t promise? If I don’t give them back to

you, will you stop trusting me?”

Oh God, what are you saying? My heart had stopped and I

couldn’t breathe.

“Can you not entrust them to me in death as well as in life?”

Suddenly a physical warmth flowed through all my body.

I think I wept a little. My words came tremblingly and

weakly, “Yes, I place them in your hands. I know you will

take care of them, in life or in death.”

And my trembling subsided. Peace—better by far than

martinis on an empty stomach—flowed over and over me.

And drowsily I drifted off to sleep.

Hate them? How could I ever hate them? Yet by faith I had

said in effect: I will do your will whatever it costs to me or

them, and I will trust you.

Their plane crashed. Everyone on board was killed. But my

wife had also had a premonition and cut their journey short,

getting off the plane the stop before the tragedy occurred.

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I am grateful for the way it worked out. But I didn’t

know beforehand that things would go as they did. And

had it not worked out that way I would have grieved

(God knows how I would have grieved), but I would not

have regretted my decision to trust and to go forward.

This is what it means to follow Christ fully."

Friends, He is king above all,He knows what is best for us at every single moment of our lives and He loves us with an AMAZING love.

Let Him in today