{"id":11035,"date":"2014-04-17T08:44:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=11035"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:48:53","slug":"all-or-nothing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=11035","title":{"rendered":"All or Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRsl2slaDLw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment . . . and plunged into the sea \u2014John 21:7<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em\n\nHave you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of the will. You may come to that point many times externally, but it will amount to nothing. The true deep crisis of abandonment, or total surrender, is reached internally, not externally. The giving up of only external things may actually be an indication of your being in total bondage.\n\nHave you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction. If you focus your attention on the emotion, you will never make the transaction. Do not ask God what the transaction is to be, but make the determination to surrender your will regarding whatever you see, whether it is in the shallow or the deep, profound places internally.\n\nIf you have heard Jesus Christ\u2019s voice on the waves of the sea, you can let your convictions and your consistency take care of themselves by concentrating on maintaining your intimate relationship to Him.\n\nJournal DJR\nGood morning Lord,\nI'm glad you put the stories in the Book.   Like Peter, here on the water.   So bold.   But then he began to sink.   And then when he said he would be with Jesus all the way to death \u2026 and then denied him a few hours later.   What is the lesson here and in today's devo?   It seems that we are called to a high level of faith and action \u2026 but only a few achieve it.   (The other 11 stayed in the boat)   And even then the highest faith achievers aren't able to maintain it for a lifetime.   Or even very much time at all.   Thinking about this, I could go on a guilt trip, but I see that I'm just like all my fellow fallible humans and that feeling guilty doesn't motivate perfection anyway.  So there must be a better way to reconcile this high calling to faith and action and our human inability to deliver????  \n\nYes, dont make it your first objective.   Perfection is nice \u2026 but you won't achieve it until you're here.   Dont stress.   I dont.   Rather, make it your first objective to walk with me and know me and see what I see and hear what I hear.   If you want to strive for perfection \u2026. strive toward perfection in walking like that.    Then \"Perfection\" in your normal understanding of the word will assume its correct secondary position.   As we walk together tighter and tighter perfectly,  that other kind of perfection and good or bad circumstances won't even matter.    When they dont even matter, you can sail over problems that would otherwise overwhelm you,  maybe even walk on some water.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment . . . and plunged into the sea \u2014John 21:7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11039,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions\/11039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}