This is a response to the sermon Jim Agrell gave Sunday morning at Kings Valley Wesleyan Church about how Easter isn't about living...it's about dying...dying to self, so that there is a place for God to come in and create something beautiful.
To me, Jim got it. As humans, we dream, we create, we plan, and we discover. We do these things because we were crafted after the ultimate dreamer, creator, planner, and discoverer. We all spend SO MUCH of our lives creating scenes and scenarios where our lives are something maybe that they aren't or something that they are SUPPOSED to be. We take what we believe is the right thing or we believe is what we were meant to do and we try to make that happen no matter what. But there is a higher calling to all of these things that I believe, at least for myself, is missed and forgotten at times. And this concept, to myself, is the key to understanding our dreams, creations, plans, and discoveries. And this concept is dying to self.
When we choose to die to self, we are choosing our God to take over absolutely everything that we have once thought to be the perfect thing to happen in our lives, and we give that away. Not in a "giving up" spirit or "that will never happen" spirit, but in a spirit where we TRUELY believe, hope, and pray that everything we have in our hearts and minds are part of a plan bigger than ourselves.
God has such a huge plan for every single one of our lives. To me, "huge" isn't even the right word to use here. The ultimate dreamer and creator has taken the time to make a path for our lives. Think about that for a second. The God that created everything we see, feel, touch, experience, has made a plan for every single one of our lives. When I think of that, I get so excited for what's to come in my future. I have zero idea of what everything is going to be, but even though it's definitely not easy, I trust that what God has for me, is so much more than what I could ever dream for myself.
Die to self...truely...and see what happens.
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