Let Jesus Drive

Hello, my beautiful family of faith,  

I wanted to follow up to my Sunday sermon on “Surrendering Our Will to God’s Will” in accordance with Luke 9:23 

And He said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” 

The holy grail of sustaining peace and happiness in our life’s is derived from giving God the proverbial wheel of our life and getting in the passenger’s seat. Trust me the guy can drive! 

As, it says in the book of Mathew: 

“Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” - Mathew 6:33

From my experience, I believe most people resist the idea of surrendering to God because it means giving up control or our individuality. 

Specially in our culture that places such a great emphasis on individualism and self-reliance. 

Heck, Mr. Blue Eyes even wrote a song about it. If that doesn’t make any sense to you send me a WhatsApp. I’ll explain it. 

The idea of surrendering control to someone else, even God, can feel very unsettling and unnatural even in Los Cabos.  

So many of us have been going through life, carving their own path, constantly trying to piece it all together, in the midst of all the struggles we face as consequences of trying to control everything. 

As I said on Sunday, doing it “my way” didn’t work out very well for me as a lot of the chapters of my life before truly surrendering to God were right out of a Stephen King horror novel.  

Thank goodness I met Paloma after I stopped trying to do it “my way“ as she would’ve kicked me to the highway.  Hey, that rhymes! 

I guess, part of the human experience is to try to do it our way until we realize the end results are less then desirable. 

While process of elimination is one way about going after growth, we don’t have to keep experiencing challenges of doing things by our own self-control in order to be convinced surrendering is the way and path of least resistance.  

Save yourself a lot of trouble, confusion, and brokenness, by simply surrendering your will to God this morning and everyday thereafter to your Heavenly Father 

When we truly surrender our will over to our Heavenly Father every day, we realize pretty quickly that joy isn’t about serving ourselves but serving others. 

“In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”- Acts 23:25

Life is about living from the source of all life, God himself.  When we’re plugged into Him and His Will, we’ve tapped into the holy grail of happiness and peace.

As, it says in the book of Romans:

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

I encourage you to take some time in silence this morning and ask Jesus to take the wheel. Turn it all over to Him.  Get yourself in the passenger’s seat.  Kick your feet up, turn on some Bob Marley or the Eagles and enjoy the ride. 

“Don’t worry, be happy.“ 

https://youtu.be/L3HQMbQAWRc - By Bob Marley and the Whalers

 But give God your everything, Including your gifts, your talents, your accomplishments, and your failures.  The more you surrender, the more joy you’re going to have. 

Below is one of the scriptures from last Sunday: 

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.” 

Remember, you can Speak to Him as you would to any good friend. Tell Him you are tired of trying to do this life all alone.  

As, it says in the book of John:

“If we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him.”

I promise you that you’ll experience a giant and immediate relief as God didn’t intend for you to drive life alone! 

“I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” - Jeremiah 29:11

Can’t wait to see you Sunday, 

Pastor Rick