Luke 23:46 - And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT." Having said this, He breathed His last. (NASB)
When you change the focus of your outcome, you change the focus of your engagement of the experience, the situation, the negotiation, or the argument. It is not nor has it ever been about winning and losing, but rather it is about the lesson, the promise, and the trans-formative growth. It all hinges on choices, and our choices hinges on our perspective. Most of our focus, mostly taught, puts too much winning and losing, a position. Position gives us chance, opportunity, and placement, only, nothing else; the rest you have to earn. Yet, we need to submit because winning does not guarantee you a ‘win’ in life or among others. What does is being authentic to self, and getting the most out of the experience so transformation is possible. Explanation – if you are only in it to win, you are unable to get the fullest of what the experience has to offer, and trans formative, metamorphosis is stymied. Not so, when you seek to be the authentic you, in light all things. Do not think this is easy, because if it was all would do it.
Take Christmas for instance, we understand the celebration of Jesus’ birth and all he gave so we could have. We know his purpose for coming was to save us, and his submission to will of God granted us grace. Yet, if we look at it all from the perspective of winning and losing, he lost. He was tried in a biased court, judge by emotional driven jury clouded by their fears, beaten for his unrelenting decisiveness to not let man’s opinion rule, and ultimately hung on the cross for his resoluteness. On the cross he stayed, He had to let the man part die, lose, in order for the all of god-part to be reveal, and we healed. However, our Father’s grace and mercy toward us is so great, that His loving faithfulness for us, allowed a part of him to live. Not only live, but endure so we could have the ultimate sacrifice in Christ. Christ became what many do not actually own much, because it is hard to wrap our heads and hearts around it. This is Jehovah Maddishkem "Sanctifier” Lev. 20:7-8. Meanings of ‘sanctify’ are officially approving of something, and a means of achieving a source of grace. We have a seal of approval upon our lives by God, and we live under grace, not under win and lost columns in this life as Christian. When our perspective allows us to embrace this truth, it changes the game of life, the journey we travel, how we deal with each conflict, and we too can say to our Father - INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT – because our spirit drives us; it is the internal…I realize it is difficult but without intentionality of achieving this purpose, we never get close to the utmost.
The struggle we are confronted with is putting this 1st Century truth that is absolute, into a 21st Century context that is realistic and practical without losing it essence....But God, we are able...We choose, we abide in the choice.
