Unshackled Moments ~ March 25 ~ Our Dangerous Power

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

 –William Law

The free exercise of free will formed the first rift between God and people, between Creator and creation. God wants real relationship with us, and the only way to have that is for us to have a real choice in whether we want to reciprocate His love for us or if we'd rather live our lives focused on ourselves. So, we have the choice to walk in and by the power of our own will, trying to please ourselves, living for ourselves and ignoring God's love and will for us. 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ~ Romans 8:35-39

When we surrender and accept God's acceptance of us, align our will with His, then nothing in our circumstances, nothing created on earth, nothing from hell, nothing that comes against us, can separate us from God. But we can, like the Prodigal Son, choose to turn and walk away, to follow the siren's call of our selfish will, and when we do that, we do something that no one else can do. We separate ourselves from God. We put the veil back together and restrict our ability to enter His presence and hear His voice and feel His love.

Abba, help me not to cut myself off from You. Don't let me separate myself from who You are and relationship with You. Keep me close to You as I go through this day submitting my will to Yours. Amen.