Are you awake?
I believe this is the most prevalent and tragic
misunderstanding that afflicts contemporary Western Christianity. We make a vow
to submit our life to Christ but then spend 99 percent of our time excluding
him from our awareness. We make him Lord over our life in theory, but we do not make him Lord over most of the moments that
make up our life.
All that matters is…to belong totally to
God, to please him, making our sole happiness to look on the present moment as
though nothing else in the world mattered.
J.-P.
de Caussade
For Jesus to be our Lord, he must be Lord over our actual
life—the one we live moment-by-moment. The only relevant question is, Are we
surrendering our life to Christ as Lord right
now? Is this a moment in which we are aware of, and surrendered to,
Christ’s Lordship? Is this a moment over which God reigns as King? Are we, in
this moment, living within the Kingdom of God?
The supersaints aren’t the only ones
who need to ask these questions. Living in this way is simply what it means to
surrender our life—our actual life—to
Christ.
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