I have a Christian brother who loves to quote former New York Yankees
coach Yogi Berra. Yogi is famous for lines you might be familiar
with. Lines like:
“It ain't over 'til it's over”
“It's deja vu all over again,” and
"Never answer an anonymous letter"
Another of his best lines – my favorite – is: "When you come to a fork in the road
... take it."
Humor aside, we come to many intersections in our
lives where important decisions must be made. In some cases, such as a freeway
entrance, we are directed to yield to the flow of traffic.
In his book titled My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald
Chambers gave counsel regarding the most critical decision any man or woman
must make. He said simply: "Yield to Jesus."
God tells us through Paul in the book
of Romans that every one of us has sinned and rebelled against our
Creator. Because of this we all deserve eternal separation from Him.
But it is not the existence of hell that
should shock us. It's the mind-boggling thought that any person at all
can expect to be saved from that place of eternal separation from God. That's what makes the offer of the Gospel … the
Good News … so incredibly amazing. Like Chambers says: “The whole human race
was created to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.”
There's only one way to be sure that your
name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life (Revelation 20:12)—by placing your
faith in Jesus; by yielding to Him as Lord and Savior in your life.
Lord, all of us have experienced the
guilt of yielding to our self-centered will or the lies of the enemy whose objectives are not joy and life, but despair and death. Today we remember that you died for
us … yielding to the Father’s will so that His perfect plan of love and everlasting
relationship could be realized.
May we yield to you, Jesus, not just on occasion, but in every moment of our lives. Thank you, Jesus, for your sacrifice. Thank you for your promise to break every kind of slavery in our lives so we might be seen as righteous in God’s eyes. Amen.
