Human beings will never be perfect. We are full of faults and follow our own heads. It's not easy to submit to anything or anyone entirely, let alone a God that we cannot see.
It took me years to get my head around submitting to God's will for the most part. I can't honestly say that I submit even 90% to this day, although I strive for this as I know that when I do that, my life will improve tremendously. When I first started submitting, things would start going really well for me and I'd get excited, but there's always that one little problem that persists or something else goes wrong. This is utterly frustrating!
I have wondered whether it's all just co-incidence as those who don't believe in God try to tell me, or is it something I did wrong?
In all my ponderings, I've come up with an analogy which makes a lot of sense for me.
Imagine you have a virus which is making you feel sick and you visit the doctor, who gives you anti-biotics to make you better. You want to be better, so you take the antibiotics. Thing is that anti-biotics often mess with one's stomach and one has to eat yoghurt to restore the natural balance in one's stomach.
When you don't follow God's will 100%, you unwittingly leave a little gap open for sin to enter (a little gossip here, a bit of dishonesty there). It often takes a while before you realised what you have done and by then the 'virus' has spread. This is when you are ready to go to God for an anti-dote. What you didn't realise is that for every gap that you realise that you have left open, there's at least one other gap you didn't realise was open and where the virus has festered.
The painful process of healing starts and that is when we are in spiritual 'fever', sweating out the 'free radicals'. Things you never anticipated may pop up to make you feel worse and the blessings might seem to be taking the slow-delivery route.
So what is the solution? Pray diligently, ask God to show you where you are leaving gaps open for sin to enter. God has given us everything we need in life and it's up to us to seek his will daily.
We cannot sit in one spot afraid to move in case we open a gap though. God is forgiving and merciful and he blesses our hands to do the work we need to do for the expansion of his kingdom as well as our survival here on earth. God blesses the hard worker. Although God has a plan for your life, you also have been given free will.
He will forgive you if you ask him to. He will protect you if you ask him to. In all you do, seek his will and ask for wisdom and guidance and he will give that and more to you.
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