Unconscious

8/21/2020

Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit.”

I have written before that I prefer the idea of yielding to Christ instead of deciding for Christ. Chambers writes, “He never asks us to decide for Him, but to yield to Him—a very different thing.” “Make a decision for Christ” has become a common phrase, but the word “decision” also connotes some kind of power attached to it; it implies that I have weighed the evidence and formed a conclusion that this is the correct course of action. Yielding, however, means to surrender or relinquish control. I wonder if the former is why we may struggle with pride in our Christianity. We take an ownership because of the decision, and often focus on strength and victory instead of a poorness (humility) in spirit because of a yielding to the Savior. We are very conscious of our Christianity, when perhaps it should be the most unconscious thing about us. How wonderful would it be if we could get to a place where our faith is so deeply and internally connected to Jesus that we can just be His disciples without any trappings? What if we yielded to Christ so completely that our words and action are the only things needed to reflect Him in the world?

Chambers writes, “Which are the people who have influenced us the most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion they were influencing us.” How amazing a thing it would be if God’s children were so unaware of themselves, so unconscious of our faith, so deeply connected with Him, that nothing else mattered.