Almost Lover

I know I suck at this whole blog thing...and I suppose that that isn't okay. I am really going to try to write more than I have (which won't take much effort =)).

I am currently reading My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers, which I feel everyone seems to be reading that book right now...Anyways, today I read about surrendering to God's will, which is something Christians here about all the time. I think we can all agree that giving our entire lives and control over to God isn't the easiest thing that we have or ever will have to do, but if we were capable of doing so, what would this world look like?

While I was reading I couldn't stop relating the surrendering of our wills to God to the scene in Harry Potter where Harry drinks a vile of liquid luck. Liquid Luck is a potion that is exactly like the name, luck. When you drink this potion, you immediately do things that will benefit you in some way, in terms of a certain goal you are achieving. However, sometimes it is difficult for people to understand why you are doing the things that you are doing. For example, after Harry drinks the potion, he tells Ron and Hermione that he is going to go to Hagrid's Hut, which is the last person he needs to talk to to reach his intended goal of befriending a certain professor. Ron and Hermione are thoroughly confused, but they can't really stop him.

If we could all completely submit our lives, ambitions, and steps to God on a daily basis, I think that we would appear to be the Harry that took liquid luck. We would do things that wouldn't make sense to ourselves or others, but they would be beneficial to us, because the actions are a part of a bigger and better plan. Just like Harry had to make the step to swallow the potion, which was a risk, we have to swallow the idea of giving up ourselves and everything we have control over to God, which at face value is seen as a risk.