Every one of us is daily deluged by people and things wishing to pull us away from our Lord, and even though we acknowledge His lordship over our lives and His utter possession of everything we are and have, we can still be led astray from time to time. We can temporarily lose our focus on Him, because there will always be moments in our life when the flesh wins. While retaining our positional devotion, we can forget our effective devotion.
Over even the most devout, mature Christian the temporal culture and our own flesh still exert a dispiriting force. When everything around us daily, ferociously works to convince us of our personal sovereignty, it is easy to forget that there is only one true Sovereign in a believer’s life.
While this world works daily to force our submission to it, we must daily re-submit ourselves, surrender ourselves, to our true Lord.
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