Unshackled Moments ~ August 23 ~ Pliable

Once we give our lives to Christ, we have given our lives to Christ. Sounds redundant? But it's something that we sometimes seem to forget. We come to God and then try to live as though our lives were our own, as if our will still had a valid voice. We have given up our lives. They are His to do with as He wills. One thing He has promised is to complete the work He began in our lives and to bring us into perfection and righteousness. For those who are or were as messed up as I have been that entails quite a lot of molding and healing and changing in order to bring the new creation into being from the old one. There's still a lot of work to do in my life, and that can be said of yours as well. The process can be joyous or misery, it can feel like accomplishment or torture, it can be something to look forward to or fear. The only difference between the two extremes is our attitude and amount of surrender. The more we make ourselves pliable to the Potter, the less it hurts when He works the clay. The more that He has to force the changes that need to be made, the worse it feels. Today let us make ourselves easy for the Master to mold.