With Full Abandon

When they let down their hair in Israel, they let it blow wild in the wind. The people volunteered with abandon, bless God.

Judges 5:2

When I work at anything, I work with everything in me, Not because I work for someone but for the One.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Colossians 3:23-24

No matter what I commit to, if I commit, I am fully in. I gave it my all, even if it’s to death. I use every bit of strength I’ve been given because truly, I’ve been given everything from God. When I made the commitment to follow him, it wasn’t just to lay around in plush circumstances and let others do for me, it was to take up my cross and follow him by serving others as He served me with his actual LIFE.

I praise God for those that walk in the same way, that would lay their life down for another. I give thanks to God for those who willingly jump in to help because he has given to them and they want to give to others in the same way.

When Jesus lay down his life for us, he didn’t ask, what are you willing to do for me? Instead, he said, “”Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.“ Luke 23:34

He set the example of how we are to live by SERVING others, not serving ourselves.

Now that I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set an example that you should do as I have done for you.

John 13:14-15

So as I walk through this Easter week and all weeks throughout the year and throughout my life, as God yields my heart to a need, whether it be for family, friends, work, a neighbor, a community, a stranger, whoever it may be, I will do it with all of my heart, all of my strength, and all of my mind, for Jesus alone. I will let down my hair and do whatever it is with full abandon.

Then he said to them all, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.

Luke 9:23-24

How are you following Jesus to the cross?