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S.E.E.D. For Today___Relinquish

Scripture "Sell everything you have and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me." Luke 18:22b NCV

Luke describes for us the heart of what it means to truly receive God's Kingdom. This rich ruler so confident in his religious practices boldly steps to Jesus hoping he would impress the Lord with his piety and devotion of the law and his good moral habits unlike other sinners. What the ruler failed to see in the story is that Jesus was seeking for those who would relinquish, abandon all that they held of any value in exchange of the new. In order to receive this new message of the Kingdom of God he had to relinquish the symbols of the old. For many of us we believe that we are good that morally we follow Jesus but there are things in our hearts that we have not relinquished to God. We find that out when crisis occurs what comes first in our lives. It is impossible for us as believers to hold on to what God wants us to let go, we have this treasure available to us in Heaven that is everlasting but many of us are stuck. The possessions we have and the material success we deem to acquire. In order for you to be free, you must free your heart of all that you hold dear to your former life, everything you possessed as a means to comfort. Spiritually you will never be whole and complete until you relinquish all externally and internally and follow Him. What do you treasure more than obeying Christ?

Example Relinquish is to voluntarily cease to keep or give up. To renounce or surrender, put aside, yield, concede, let go, no longer claim.

Exercise Read Luke 18:18-25 Journal and Talk to God

Devotion Lord my prayer today is that I voluntarily surrender my all to You. Put aside everything that hinders my relationship with You. I let go of every claim of my free will in acknowledgement of Your Will. I give up everything You want of me. I know that if I lose my life I will have life so I relinquish all that I have, all that I am, because all of me wants all of You. I love You Father, I love You Lord and I love the Holy Spirit in Jesus Name Amen.


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