Jun 29 2010
published: The Best-Laid Plans
Raised in an actively Christian home, I have always heard that we’re supposed to give our lives — every aspect of our lives — to God. The call has always been clear to me, and not as some mystical vocation to which only ministers and anchorites can attain. Ephesians 2:9-10 declares that God has prepared specific works for all of us:
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Believing this, from childhood I have been “giving my life to God.” But I don’t always believe He’s accepted it.
Maybe I’m waiting for a cataclysmic acceptance speech. I say “Here I am, send me,” and then I wait for fire and glory and seraphim crying “Holy, holy, holy.” But to wait for God to accept my life is to fail to believe what He tells me: that He has already accepted me. He has already prepared good works for me. I’ve said, “Take my life,” and He’s taken it.
