GIVING AND RECEIVING
“Not My will, but Yours, be done.” -LUKE 22:42
The
Cross demonstrates that we do not gain by trying to get, but by losing
in order to gain. We cannot really receive from God until we have
learned to give up to God. It is the spirit which cries, “Not my will,
but Yours be done” and “Father, into Your Hands I commit my spirit.”
These
words are easily uttered, but we cannot appreciate them or really
experience them until we have been through our Gethsemane experiences
and our Golgotha experiences. Until that time we are merely reciting
some words, but we do not truly know what it means to give ourselves up
to God, to be completely consecrated and submitted to Him. The Cross
prepares us to receive by first forcing us to give up. Therefore, the
Cross is gaining through losing.
Source: “Embrace the Cross” by Chip Brogden
http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/embrace-the-cross
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