Written by Brian Morykon, a contemporary writer.
The truly good life is a long game. It is a life of continual surrender and returning to Jesus, moment by moment until the moments have made a life worth living. All day long, we’re being pitched substitutes and shortcuts for this life of continual surrender to the one who loved us into being. Don’t buy them. Don’t hold back little parts of yourself for fear of what God will do with them. God will be good to all of you and will resurrect glorified any part of you that needs to be crucified. Maybe you’ve been following Jesus for a long time. Maybe you’re tempted to check out or be on cruise control. Maybe you’re tempted to be on full control—to take by force what God hasn’t seen fit to give you yet. Take a breath. Christ is near. Surrender again. Listen to the quiet voice, and if you can’t hear it listen to the silence. Live as if God is real. Live as if God is capable of taking care of you. Live as if you didn’t have to manage your own safety, security, and reputation. Live as if God thinks you are worth dying for. Don’t take matters into your own hands. Don’t make a deal with the devil to get the good you have coming to you before God wants to give it to you. The good life is a long game. Trust the process. Christ is the process.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. [Psalm 91:1]
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