MATTHEW 4:18–20
I was once in a conference for young girls and the speaker pointed out that God cannot use all of our lives unless we let Him. He desires us to be willing and devoted. The speaker continued to say that she had given her life, future, goals, and entertainment to Jesus. When she surrendered herself, God gave her an abundant ministry. She encouraged all of us girls to let God have all of our life so He could use it all for His plan. Right there, I decided that I wanted God’s absolute best for me. However, it’s easy to say that you’re going to do His will only, but it’s really hard to give up all of the fun that there is on earth. Daily, I find things that I still want control over in my life, but I have to tell myself that I am God’s, made for His purpose, and I am not in control of my own life. It was a hard struggle to let my entertainment and time go out of my hands into His, but every day my life grows sweeter as I drop my goals and wants and follow God. A lot of things are not important anymore because He is worth so much and everything is so much better living as His.
Hannah Reeves, 14, home school, Central, SC
Father, teach me to find the joy in living for You,
the joy the surpasses anything I could have or
do in this world.