Surrendered vs. Selfish (TMF:2085)

Friday, May 05, 2023
Peace to Live By: Surrendered vs. Selfish (TMF:2085) - Daniel Litton
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       It is true that we are free. It’s what I’ve been talking about with the Law of Liberty. God has given freedom to Christians to pick and choose many things. Interestingly enough, the way we really get what we want is be deciding on a goal beforehand, and then surrendering the feeling of wantingness for whatever it is. By surrendering the wantingness, by this act of Giving Up Control, we see that what we desire automatically comes into our life in due time. On the flip side, we can use selfish ambition to try to achieve these wants and goals in our lives. The problem is, is that we don’t need to have ambition to get what we want. That is a common misunderstanding for how things really work. Selfish ambition only makes things harder and more difficult. It causes us to do this and that, to try this method and that method, only to find that we are right back at the beginning where we started. No, we get what we want by choosing it first and then giving up the desire for it.