WHISPER FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT
All Will Be Well
Turn Your life
over to me,
with the promise
and intent
never to take it back.
A total surrender,
but not with the regret
of a war lost,
but the joy
of a war won.
That after a life
of selfishness and sin
you realize
you cannot control
your life, or
the life of those
around you.
Now, at long last
you can rest in me
with the understanding
that all will be well.
Dr. Don’s Reflection
Why do I seek the approval and assurances of other people? Thank God I do it far less these days. I find the more I am in Christ, the less I need approvals and assurances from other people. The more I am in Christ, the less approval and assurances I get because the world’s way is not God’s way. And God’s way is my way.
In this Whisper From the Holy Spirit, however, I was told to trust the Lord and stop seeking approvals and assurances from others. I was instructed not only to turn my trust over to the Lord but my entire life and that I must do so without regret and with the intent of never taking either one back.
For me, it became clear that you cannot just walk sometimes with Christ. After a time I fully realized that a walk with Christ, no matter how difficult, is better than a walk with anyone else, anywhere else. Understanding this made me finally realize that the approvals and assurances of others are not that important. My relationship with Christ is most important to me, no matter what anyone else thinks of it of me.
Dr. Don’s Comment
Have you had enough of trying to run your life, your way and using the world’s approach of being concerned about what you want everyone else to think of you? What did you ever get from the world that did not cost you a big piece of yourself? Do you finally realize that if you keep on seeking the approvals and assurances of other people, there will be nothing left of you? You will have given up entirely who you are and who you could be for the approvals and assurances of others.
When you abandon your desire to please others and decide to seek only to please God, you can rest in the Lord and depend on Him. You then can let Him take control of the protection, provision, and power of your life. At long last, you do not care what others think as you walk and work with Christ who gives you all the assurance you will ever need. With Christ, you know that all will be well and the opinions of others or the assurances you seek from them are useless. All the approvals and assurances of the world will never give you what you get from a life with Christ.