Romans 14:7 says that we don’t live or die for ourselves, whether we live or die we are the Lord’s. The Scriptures dismantle the illusion that life is our own. The language can be used, “have you accepted God into your life” and yet it isn’t my life. When we zoom out and really look at the whole person, we realize this is God’s life we participate in. He is the initiator and orchestrator. Keeping in mind that this life is the Lord’s gives us the proper perspective.
We can come up with our own plans and ask the Lord to bless them or we can submit ourselves to Him surrendering to His activity within us and His leading. When we are baptized in Him, we are baptized into His life. This is all a process of deeper conversion and transformation. Fundamentally, we can seek a position of control, or surrender to the Lord’s omnipotence and give ourselves over to His will.
Fr. David shares about how he experienced the Lord telling him he was running his own life and asked him to let the Lord Himself run his life. The repentance and conversion thus led Fr. David to drastically changed his life.
When we realize this is really the Lord’s life in which we participate it really calls us on beyond not doing the things on the naughty list to an ever-deeper experience of surrender. In this way, we radically realize there is always more of God, deeper union into which we are called, and we no longer have the tendency to evaluate ourselves as better than our neighbor because we aren’t drinking, having illicit relationships, acting out of anger, and the like. Rather, we are continually called on to continual growth in intimacy with the Lord. This keeps life fresh because there is always more and He makes all things new.
Living as though the Lord is in our lives rather than us in His life, we can tend to compartmentalize spirituality. Recognizing that we are in God’s life disposes us to incarnate Him to the world.
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