God is very interesting. You're taught all your life that you will eventually have to stop relying on your parents and take on the world alone. However, God asks you to do the opposite. He asks that you give everything in your life over to him. He asks that you not have an ounce of stress or worry in your life. It's a single step of faith, "do you trust God to work in and guide your life?"
On the surface it sounds like a pretty sweet deal. God will solve all my problems. But at the same time it's a deal breaker as well. Yes God will help you through your challenges, but giving you life to God doesn't mean he's going to lead it according to how you want it to go. God's going to guide your life in the direction he wants it to go. God's way isn't always the easy way. In fact it's almost never the easy way. God sent his son to die in order to save the pathetic beings we are, so he has all the more right to at least ask us for a little sacrifice in return.
God calls us to live differently than the rest of the world. Giving our life to him means we are called to show his love in everything we do, and doing whatever he calls us to do. For me, that's leading high school kids to Christ. It means leaving my college atmosphere to go hang out with high school kids who A) I don't know, and B) don't want to talk to me... and loving them anyway! It means going to sit with them at lunch, introducing myself, and trying to carry on a conversation with them... All so they can know God's love like I do.
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