A Life Given Over and Laid Down.

Every right laid down. Every passion given up. Every goal and purpose and plan given over. To Him. Because only He can justify. Only He can satisfy. Only He can orchestrate for your good. Only Him.

And the outcomes and recognitions fade in importance. The longings and desires no longer pull. The goals and plans and reasonings diminish, before Him. Next to Him, Who is Life.

Because life is only found in abundance in Christ, only Christ. Yes, a life given over and laid down to Him, is a life of abundance. It is the only way. On your knees is the only way to life. Living on your knees, looking up, recognizing God. Surrendered, to Him. It is the only way to life, to His Life.

But bending the knee is not possible. It is not. It cannot be done, in your own strength. It cannot. A soul cannot willfully decide to bend the knee. No. It cannot. A soul must first acknowledge God, to seek God. And the result is always the bending of the knee. First God. Then praise. First God. Then surrender. And your praise of Almighty God is your surrender, a bending of the knee. Recognizing God.

For God made a way. And Christ is the Way, the only way, to have life. To have abundant life! Because He is Life.

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"Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other. I have sworn by my own name, and I will never go back on my word: Every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess allegiance to my name." - Isaiah 45:22-23