GIVE UP OR GIVE IN!

Think for a moment what you would do if someone saved your life from a fiery fire! Would you not feel compelled to thank this person and ask them what you could do for them for saving your life?

That is exactly what Jesus dying on the cross did for us! He saved us from a fiery eternal fire and once we acknowledge that He has saved us, we are made brand new and we are to give our lives to Him!

If you truly felt saved from the fire wouldn't you naturally want to follow Jesus's way!  But too many times, we are saved from the fiery fire and never follow through on giving our life completely over to Him!  We may never give him any part of our life and continue doing the same things in the same way (topic for a different day) or we may give God just "some" of our life and keep the rest for ourselves.

The challenge is surrendering your entire life to Him and because of our sinful nature choices are made each and everyday to what we surrender too.  Sometimes we wave the white "I surrender" flag in God's direction and sometimes that white flag waves in sin's direction.  Either way we are saying I can't do this!  If we wave the flag in God's direction, we are saying "God I give up my life to you, I can't do anything right without you." If we wave the flag in sin's direction we are saying "This is just too much temptation for me to handle, I'll give in to it just this once."  We either "Give UP or Give IN"  We either Give Up our life to God or we Give in to sin! 

Personally, I "give in"  a lot more than I should. My prayer this week is to "Give Up" more! Yes that even felt weird to type but it's true.   My challenge for myself this week is to make those decision points stick out and take the situation out of it and reduce it down to the basics of just asking myself  "Are you going to Give Up your life to God, or Give In to sin? Which way are you going to wave that white flag?"  

PS.And I was thinking, the next time you hear someone say, "I give up!" it might be a great time to share with them a christian perspective on "giving up" vs "giving in"!