Son I will not remove the burden from your clutched fist nor will I force open the doors, storage and cupboards you are yet unwilling to surrender.  This is not a game it is voluntary transformation activated through humility and dire need for salvation. This is Love and Love does not force you to become that which you do not wish to become. However, when you have surrendered to what you referred to as a higher power, shouldn’t you reasonably assume that such surrender engages the higher power to do whatever is within the higher power authority to do in order to fulfill, let’s say, “Let your will be done in heaven even as it is done in the Earth”?  When did we fall pray to our own illusion that God only gets to be the God of our terms and conditions? Isn’t that a violation of the craven image commandment? Manufacturing a god of your own creation so that you can rub it three times daily, polish it and keep it on the mantle to impress company.

God is all knowing, all powerful, Complete and total love, but not something to be messed with in misunderstanding of His Character. In Proverbs it states clearly the beginning of Wisdom is fear of the Lord. Why does it say that in a book that is the Holy, Righteous, Inerrant Word of God and not mean it? God is the only one in the Universe who can commit your soul to separation or punishment in a place that was devised for His fallen angels or in an dark dimension he chooses. Why would anyone think that they can toy with that type of power? Is it pride or foolishness because it may be both but it is definitely in one of those camps?

Let us face the facts, we sinned, His law says that even that first sin once committed earned us a death sentence. Our situation was hopeless without avenue of escape from a All Powerful God who could simply ignore us and go about His business. But that is not what He did. Our God is so Loving that He voluntarily became a Human, amazing to the Angels, and reduced himself to this dimension in order to live alongside us, teach us, prepare us and then die for us to take the punishment for Every Sin That Has Ever Been Committed and Will Be Committed for every man and woman who ever lived or will live on this Earth. He was perfect and Became Entirely Wretched and experienced that horrible feeling of being separated with no Hope from God. And He did that all for us. Then He stepped back, arose and did something perhaps equally amazing and sent His Spirit back when He left that the Spirit would Live inside each of us who surrendered as a seal of the down payment of our inheritance, a mark of salvation, to counsel, guide, convict and empower each believer on their journey to meet a Holy And Righteous God at the end of this temporary life.

Now, my debt was paid that I might live free of that inevitable payment that I could never make and its mandatory punishment. I can’t stop dancing over that one, but wait a minute, now I get to be filled with the Power and Authority of His Spirit here on Earth to serve the Purpose within God’s Plan that I was designed to perform. I get to volunteer to His shaping hand upon my life that I might be sanctified, made better, changed, improved and matured along the way. And I get an entirely new family of people who have realized the same heavenly gift and become new creatures to serve this Holy Plan beside me. So, I have been set free, given the keys to eternal life, the power to testify to others that they might find the same gift and I get to spend it great people, while indwelt by the Holy Spirit of a God who loves me so much that He never leaves and always provides for all of my needs.

Sorry I am not yet seeing the reason why I would want to hold on to cupboards or the things of the past. I am not quite understanding the unwillingness to surrender to that Higher Power when we know He can do the impossible and Brother, I was impossible. God is not some toy or some idea with which we associate our psychology or philosophical understanding. He is not a concept to be contemplated or for interesting conversation or perhaps to help your fit in the group. God is the One Being who created everything who made each of us and has TOTAL authority over everything and everyone. He can do whatever He chooses to do. Why then would He give us the choice as to where we want to go in this life and the next? I don’t know but I know where I want to go and with whom I want to spent eternity. With Him and hopefully with a bunch of You, because I deeply Love Him and I Love you. In Jesus’ Name.