Welcome to day 17 of our chapter-by-chapter walk through the Gospel of Luke, all as part of this December series Do Not Be Afraid. You know, there’s a wonderful line in Luke chapter 17. It’s hard to read, but when we realize God always has good things in store, when Jesus says, “If you try to preserve your life, you’ll lose it. Yet, if you have the courage to lose your life, you will preserve it.”
You know, there was a season in Patricia and my life when we knew that we had to move, we had to change what we were doing, and we had to give up our careers. We had that sense from heaven, that the Father was asking us to lay down something. And I was in a conference, it was a wonderful conference with all your favorite GOD TV speakers, and one of them said this incredible line, “You’ve got to give up to go up.” And so we went back to where we were living at the time, and we put our house on the market. We sold all our furniture, we gave notice for our careers. And that was the thing that allowed us, with just a couple of boxes, to come back to the UK and to start volunteering with GOD TV.
You know, if I could talk to the younger version of myself, I’d say, “You know, this scripture is true. If you try and preserve what you’ve got, it’ll go. But if you let it go, the Lord will preserve it.” If He’s not just Savior, if He’s Lord, then let Him rule in your life. Let Him be Lord. And when He asks you to give something up, whether it be a relationship, or a job situation, perhaps it’s finances that He’s asking you to sow into the Gospel. If we will, rather than preserving it and holding it tight, if we will let it go, then He has a wonderful, extraordinary way of preserving it.
If I could look back at that younger man and give him a word of encouragement, I’d say that the Gospel is true. If I could let him in some extraordinary way, see where we are now, maybe a few more gray hairs than what I had back then, but understand how it all worked out. Perhaps when Jesus said, that if you preserve your life, you’ll lose it, but if you lose your life in Him, it will be preserved. Have courage today. Do not be afraid. Let the Lord be Lord of your life today and lead you to His abundance, which may appear that the first thing you do is just let it go.
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