Complacency
A tentative surrender is what most folks want to give
Not willing to abandon how they truly want to live
For fear they'll be expected to take up another path
And this they'd only do as an avoidance of God's wrath
But tentative has never been a principle of God's
No maybe's or just possibly's when Christ walked on this sod
But with a full surrender Jesus Christ became the Man
That we might have the benefit of His redemption plan
The plan that saw the future in a way we cannot see
That sees two paths if taken for their possibilities
One path that leads to freedom and with God eternal life
The other condemnation ending in the death of strife
For only those who seek Him in the way that God sought them
Not bound by ties of worldliness that hold them back from Him
But daily in each moment seeking what His will might be
Will have His perfect promise in its perfect purity
That promise of eternal life where no one seeks their own
But finds their greatest joy in Christ with Him upon His throne
Communing with Him daily as we can with Him today
When we learn how to truly live and hear Him when we pray
As sometimes He speaks to us through the scriptures that we read
At other times through others who have learned their wills to heed
Or through His voice in nature in the lessons we learn there
And sometimes in impressions shared with us in times of prayer
But rarely does He speak to those who choose to live their way
Not willing to surrender all they do and all they say
Not willing to abandon heart and soul and mind to Him
Who gave completely of Himself to be as one with them
Not one for just a moment but for all eternity
Forever giving up a part of His divinity
As in a human body one with us He'll always stay
As part of His surrender He so willingly did pay
Because of love unbounded by the death that we deserved
That laid within the path He walked from which He never swerved
But was the door He opened that leads to eternity
For those who would surrender all without complacency
John 3:16-17; Romans 8:1-17
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