Get off of the Throne!
Why do I try to climb back on the throne of my life when Christ has died for me? He should be on the throne of my life.
Let’s say a diagram of a circle represented your life. If you put a throne in the very center of the circle, it represents who is in control of your life. Who is at the helm? Who calls the shots? (I would put the diagram here, but I can’t figure out how to get it in the blog.)
Why do I have a difficult time giving up the control of my life? (handing over things like worry and what is happening in the lives of my children and other relatives? Making decisions before asking God?)
One reason is because even though I get off of that throne, I climb back on sometimes. It is so easy to do! We may not say, “God, I think I can handle this one…”, but our actions prove it to be true.
Romans 6:6 says, “knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; (7) for he who has died is free from sin.
If you drew a cross out to the side of the diagram, you could write “old man” on it. That is where we are supposed to be. Dead people don’t have control of their lives anymore. We are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God. Sin, gets its power by our obedience to it. When I am in control, I mess up. God doesn’t make bad decisions.
Life is not a sprint. We can’t just will to do the right thing. We have to put right things in place in our lives so when presented with the wrong thing, we can make the right choice. We can only do that when God is in the center.
God must be on the throne.
Where in your life today do you need to allow God to be on the throne?
Blessings,
Thora
