An Unhindered Life

What is power in my life? Power is simply God flowing through me. No matter how weak or how unaccomplished I might feel, when I allow God to work through me, then what I do will be powerful. I need to remember this during days when I seem to slide back two steps after climbing one. 

No day is a failure when I have given it to God. His use of my surrendered day may not be apparent, but it is real. If I dwell in Him, and He dwells in me, then I will bear fruit. The fruit is not mine to bear. I am just the branch which carries the life of the vine to the fruit. He is the vine, and I am the branch. For the life of the vine to flow through me, I must surrender all that I am to Him. If I dwell in Him, and desire only His will and His work, His Spirit will not fail to flow through my life into the lives of others.

Is His power hindered in my life? The only hindrance that can hold His power from flowing through my life is self. If this is the case, then I don’t have enough hunger for the revelation of His Word and intimacy with Him. Why don’t I hunger enough for Him to let go of all that I am, all that I want, all that I have chosen? Why don’t I realize that when I hold on to the least vestige of myself I have told the Lord that I am the vine? That is pride. Now consider Peter telling the Lord he was not worthy to have his feet washed. What appeared as humility in Peter was really pride. Peter was trying to hold on to his relationship with the Master as it had been by saying he was not worthy for the Master to wash his feet, and the Lord was asking Peter to surrender to a new relationship with Him. Pride. Self. Unworthiness. All are excuses to my absolute surrender.

I hunger for others to be better off for having come in contact with me. If I yearn to be a conduit of His unconditional love and grace, I will continually surrender to Him, and His Spirit will manifest the love of Jesus in and through me. If I seek and to yield Him in each moment, then I will be a channel of all He is flowing through all I am not. Others will receive that which I cannot give, and experience His power doing abundantly and exceedingly more than I can think or ask.

Thanks be to the Lord for the indescribable gift of His grace! May I always honor Him as He has honored me.