Wherever He leads

Here lately, my pastor has been going through each week of Experiencing God on Sunday nights as a refresher for everyone who went through the study and to teach the ones who weren't able to attend it. Last night, something he highlighted from that week's lesson really stuck with me:


"Have you come to a place in your life where you are willing to yield everything to God in order to follow Him?"

Can we truly follow God if we aren't yielding our everything to Him? God wants to bless us, when we ask to be blessed and when we fail to ask for it. He loves blessing His children. We, by not yielding our everything to Him, are missing out on so many more blessings. How can we stand in church and sing songs like, I surrender all and Wherever He leads I'll go, if that really isn't the case? I am preaching to myself too.

God is working on me right now. He is asking me to surrender to all my comforts and just submit to Him in being willing to do overseas missions. I, at this point, don't know if He really wants me to actually GO and DO overseas missions, but He at least wants me to submit to the possibility of it. There are certain luxuries I don't want to give up that I would most likely have to give up if I actually went and did. Does that make sense?

He may not want me to go, He just wants me to trust Him enough to submit to it, knowing it could be a possibility one day. When it comes to "I surrender all" and going "wherever He leads," I really have to think long and hard about it. But why? This should be an easy answer.

I just have to get to a place in my life where I am willing to yield everything to God in order to follow Him. He isn't out to harm us. He has the best in mind for us. Why is it so hard to yield everything? Arg, stupid sinful nature! :)