As Sara was losing more and more of her abilities, she
realized that “being a servant meant all or nothing. A line was drawn in the
sand and she had to choose fear, or she had to choose to completely trust Him.”
Matthew 16:25 tells us, “If you try to keep your life for
yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find
true life.”
I think as Christians, we truly desire to do what God wants
us to do. In order to fulfill what God wants from us, we ask and rely on God to
help us through. As Sara tells us in her book, Choose Joy: Finding Hope and Purpose When Life Hurts, “that would mean we are driving and God is giving us
moral support.”
Sara challenges us to let God take the wheel. When we rely
on God to help us through our life, we are living a life about ourselves, not
about Him. And, this life is not about us. It’s about Him. It’s about surrendering
our lives to the one who put us here. Our life only works when God is at the
wheel driving.
Our choice is to go along for the ride and surrender our
lives to the destinations He brings us to. To be open enough to know where
along the journey he needs us to act. There are going to be times along the journey
that we may not like where He is taking us, or the traveling companions He
picks up along the way. But, when we stop and realize it’s not all about us, we will
start to notice that the traveling companion needed someone to listen to them
or provide them an encouraging word.
