When Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll, Pt. 2

While we are yielded and submissive to God’s will, that does not mean we should be passive.   #daybydaylw   Interested in learning more about becoming a devoted follower of Christ? Go to follow.lifeword.org!   ~~~   How do you submit to God’s plan in the midst of suffering? But how do we do that? I think a large part of the answer is believing what God has promised. God had said that he had forgiven David. God had promised to extend David’s lineage forever. And it seems that David was resting in those promises. In fact, we see David resting in those promises in Psalm 3. “You are a shield about me; you are my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried to the LORD and he answered me from his holy hill. I lay down and slept! I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me.” God has made promises to us. That Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection are enough to satisfy the wrath of God against us; it is enough to pay off our debt of sin; it is enough to secure our righteousness and eternity forever. His ascension back to heaven came with the promise of the sending of the Holy Spirit to indwell us, to comfort us, to embolden us, to be our wisdom, our strength, our hope, our life. So we rest in those promises, which leads us to being yielded to God’s will. If the Spirit of God is indwelling us for those purposes, then do you not think that the Holy Spirit will be yielded to His Father’s will? But yieldedness and submission does not mean passiveness in our lives. Resting in the promises of God does not mean retiring from the work of God. Resting in the promises of God is oftentimes full of action.