Abandoning Ourselves to Him

Luke 22:42 "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not My will, but Yours, be done."

Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane when He prayed this prayer of consecration.  His prayer was so intense and full of agony that verse 44 goes on to say that "His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground."  He knew He was about to endure suffering at the hands of the Jewish rulers, yet He still abandoned Himself to His Father's will and went to the cross to redeem mankind from their sins.  He knew if He didn't, we would never experience true life.

How about us? Are we going to abandon ourselves to our Heavenly Father's will no matter the cost?  To be abandoned to something is to totally relinquish control and to surrender and to do so requires us to fully trust Him. I think of the exercise where a person faces forward and falls back into the arms of someone they can't see, but knows they are there and will catch them before they hit the ground.  They have to trust and have faith to relinquish themselves to someone they don't see but know is there to catch them. 

Galatians 2:20 says that "I have been crucified with Christ.  It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.  And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."   When we live an abandoned life to Christ, others will see less of us and more of Him.  His life changes our words, our actions, and how we treat people.

Let's make it our daily prayer as we abandon ourselves to Him; "not my will but yours be done." Let go and trust Him. He will catch you.