Does your walk with God bleed?

November 4th, 2010 admin

One dark night long, long ago I sat by a church summer camp bonfire and told Jesus, the Lord of the universe that I didn’t want to be the one in control of my life anymore. I wanted Him to be in control.  I wanted Him to live in me and through me and that I, Becky Webb, wanted to be His hands and feet as much as he would allow me to be.  I told Him in my simple 13 year old words, that I wanted to give my life back to Him, who gave His life for me.

See on that dark summer night it hit me like a ton of bricks, I needed much more than to be a good person that goes to church on Sunday and reads her bible, but I was in desperate need of the Spirit of the Living God to bleed into every compartment of my life.  I realized in that moment that life wasn’t about me, it never was, and it never will be.   Instead it was always about God and His plan and what he was doing on the earth.  Now, don’t understand me wrong, he cares about me as a unique individual. He created me as my own person, but he also created me to use those gifts that he has uniquely blessed me with so that myself and others will worship Him and bring Him the glory that He deserves.  He is God, He is the creator and sustainer of everything so, “Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord.” (Psalm 150:6)

Even though on that night around the campfire, I knew I wanted to give God every part of my life, years down the road I found myself giving into a common cultural lie.  I gave into the lie that God had His little neat compartment in my life where if I spent time with him on a regular basis, went to church, and didn’t do much wrong, my walk with Him would grow and flourish.

I was terribly wrong.  What I failed to realize was that if I don’t allow my walk with God to permeate every area of my life my walk with Him will be stifled.  If you are truly walking with God, there should be no neat compartment that makes up your life.  Instead, my walk with God should bleed over in to every other part of my life.

Every one of us is on a different part of our journey with the Lord.  I heard a wise speaker once say, “if God showed us everything we needed to change at once we would be completely overwhelmed.”  God is working on different parts of our lives at different times.  Don’t feel guilty or compare yourself to what someone else is doing, unless you are being convicted by God Himself.  I don’t want you to feel like you haven’t arrived yet in your walk with the Lord.  What I want to urge you is to allow God to rein over everything.  Don’t hold anything back.  Don’t put God in a neat little compartment.  He won’t fit.  He shouldn’t fit.

I do believe that one thing does ring true for all of us.  If you are a Christian and truly want to walk with God, you will allow him to change you in every area of your life including the food that you eat, the clothes that you wear, the things that you read, the music that you listen to, how you take care of your body, how you use your money, what you think about, how you use your time, how you take care of his creation, how you vote, etc.  If you allow God to be boxed in by how you think life with him should be you are selling yourself short of an amazing journey that only God can take you on.  Take time today and ask God to show you if you are trying to fit him in a neat little box that you can call your religion and/or your relationship with God.  If he shows you that you are ask him to expand your view and blow your mind.  He will be faithful.  I promise.