I am righteous and I will surrender completely to God to avoid falls

From: April 1-7, 2008

Pastor: Edith Cruz

Study: # 536

TOPIC: “I am righteous and I will surrender completely to God to avoid falls” 2 Chronicles 12:13, 14 Our search for God should be total and complete each day, we should surrender to Him completely. In life we will always live in difficult situations, that is why it is good to seek God always. David struggled very much in his life. God promised Solomon a peaceful reign, But Solomon went after the things that were vain, that were temporary. He did not fight for what was important, and for that reason he did not win the battle. When we live an active life struggling, we escape when we see evil. Salomon led the people of Israel to live with a great burden, because he became obsessed in his greatness. We sometimes live life in such a hurry that we forget that we have an offspring that we could either win them or lose them. Solomon’s son was not willing to do what was right. Rehoboam could have changed things, he was supposed to do right to the people, but he didn’t. God works in us, but it is up to us to repent. Rehoboam did what was wrong because he did not dispose his heart to seek Jehovah completely. By nature, people reserve the things that they don’t want to become detached from and this is why they fall. Falls are not pretty or healthy for the people of God, but rather there is a lot of shame. Sometimes we make the habit of blaming everyone, but a righteous person should not have falls because he lives struggling all the time. The righteous have to surrender to God completely in order to avoid falls. If we become careless, the years can go by and later we will have regrets. The righteous have to believe in God even more. The things that we do not surrender will begin to seize us each day. And we will not be able to define what is happening to us. We have not searched God completely and what we reserve will become our eyes, our mind, our strength, and will take our heart and soul. The small things that we keep in our life are the ones that won’t allow us to seek God completely. God is always willing to hear from us, but as the years go by these things will tell if we are seeking God completely or not. God wants us to love him, but what is hidden is what wraps us up. For this reason, we don't understand why we have not given ourselves completely to God. Rehoboam had everything to gain, but we don’t belong to ourselves. We belong to God and He asks of us to give Him 100%. God has a way of evaluating us. We are only an instrument of God. If in some way we have not loved him, it will be reflected. The heart is deceiving, for that reason we have to dispose of it in order to seek God. Our heart is controlled when it is illuminated with the Holy Spirit. In Rehoboam’s heart there was no disposition to seek Jehovah. This is how we seek Jehovah, internally. Isaiah 43:22 If we seek God with our heart there will never be a distance, because Jehovah listens to the righteous when his name is implored. There will be a distance if we become tired of seeking God and then we will not be able to see God’s work in our life, in this world. When we become tired the first thing we do is we stop calling on God and we start doing things with our own strength. There is not a call to God when men become tired when they ceased to pray, to love him, to serve him, and no longer depend on God but on there own strength. God does not have to hear his call. If we get tired of Him, then, who can deliver us from cancer or from a divorce? We live adverse situations for not struggling when we had to and what is lost will not return. God gives us a time for everything we live. To reach tomorrow, we have today. But what happens is that we get tired of God and it is easier to mingle with this world that passes and is vain rather than to seek God. When we do not seek

God completely Jehovah gets tired. We have to turn to Jehovah because we have not surrendered to him completely. Because we have maintained a reserve, and with God there cannot be any reserves. When we depend on our own strength, we fall in depression and then there is no strength to feed ourselves and much less to struggle. We can have a very expensive pearl necklace, but if we are careless it can break, the pearls fall and when we try to gather them, at least one gets lost. Because of that reserve that we have one day God will hold us accountable. One of the reasons we get tired of Jehovah is because of our pleasures, what we haven’t surrendered to God completely. Then we fall in depression when we are not able to struggle. At night and in the desperation of illness there isn’t a way out. Sometimes we think in the present that the future is secured. But, only God can secure our future when we seek him and invoke him. What do we want for the future, for tomorrow; why do we get tired? What we do not see today is because we have not searched God in the past. Isaiah 64:7 If we leave anything in reserve, even if it’s only a small %, it will become wild beast. Sin will cause a nation to be destroyed if Jehovah is not invoked. Where else can we seek shelter? There is in no one else, only in God. The only way that we can have a victorious tomorrow is if we lean on God. Sin provokes destruction in men when there is not a complete surrender to God. In filthiness there is no justice, it’s like dirty rags, we fall like a leaf; evilness carries us like the wind. Those who are filthy detain the work of God. God does not change. What appears to be justice and is being contaminated is like dirty rags. This does not allow worship, search, prayer or fasting. The true prayer is abandoned when we do not seek God completely. One prays for necessity, not for love. Indifference in prayer shows that there is no passion. The only way the great problems can be resolved is in prayer. Indifference towards God makes us distant, God hides his face and there is no way out. To pray is to hold on to God, to the promises he has for us. We cannot lose the spiritual beauty, because evilness can grow on us and the wind can take us in a hurry. Those who search know themselves, because they don’t walk like as fools. What is in us is what we are, what comes from the inside. We cannot demonstrate that we are servants if we don’t even love. Mega Zoe does not walk in two waters, let us not be confused. When there are people that don't go to God to honor him, to seek direction and consult him, the wrath of God comes upon them. We sometimes say that we serve him, but this can be a lie if we only give God crumbs and we don’t surrender completely. Those who serve God never become rebellious. They conceal themselves where no one can see them. A tree will never dry out, only the leaf. The Word should always be strong in our lives to see if we seek him completely and we surrender to Him what no one can see. Will we surrender everything to God in order not to fall? Do we love Him? Amen.