Recklessly Abandoned To His Will

This morning I woke with the kids Bible Song ringing through my mind..."Who did (Who did), Who did (Who did), Who did swallow Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo..." I found myself laughing and wondering where in the world these things come from - out of nowhere it seems. In the same thought process, the words Recklessly Abandoned passed through my mind. Those two words stirred me and I could not get them out of my head.
As I began "googling" as I often do, one of the first things I see in my search is a title, "With Reckless Abandon, Jonah and the Big Fish." Now tell me that wouldn't make you take a second glance. Isn't it funny how God works sometimes! The blogger says, "Jonah didn't know how his story was going to end, and we never know either. I love to consider whatever circumstances I am in, no matter how good, bad, or (more often) mediocre, as having the potential to become something that will define me (or someone else) or that will be remembered by many for many years." Jonah was a mere prophet who disobeyed God, as we have all been guilty of at one point in time or another I'm sure, somehow thinking that we know something God doesn't??? Or maybe it's that we like to pretend that it wasn't Him we just heard speak. What I have learned is that if you feel that God is speaking something to your Spirit, don't dismiss it. Search it out, find Him in it and listen. If He is truly speaking, you will know. But when it doesn't appeal to our ears, we are often so quick to dismiss it as a casual thought. There is nothing about God that is "casual" and believe me, those "dismissed thoughts," they will find their way back to us one way or the other. When God speaks, He expects that we will listen!
We all search for purpose and meaning in life and when we accept Christ, we not only search for significance, but we want to know, "God, What is my calling?" I read this devotion from Oswald Chambers this morning and it caught my attention. (This too came up in my google search for "reckless abandon." Read this, I think you will enjoy:
Do You See Your Calling?
. . . separated to the gospel of God. . . —Romans 1:1
"Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the gospel of God. The one all-important thing is that the gospel of God should be recognized as the abiding reality. Reality is not human goodness, or holiness, or heaven, or hell— it is redemption. The need to perceive this is the most vital need of the Christian worker today. As workers, we have to get used to the revelation that redemption is the only reality. Personal holiness is an effect of redemption, not the cause of it. If we place our faith in human goodness we will go under when testing comes.
Paul did not say that he separated himself, but "when it pleased God, who separated me . . ." (Galatians 1:15). Paul was not overly interested in his own character. And as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption. Christian workers fail because they place their desire for their own holiness above their desire to know God. "Don’t ask me to be confronted with the strong reality of redemption on behalf of the filth of human life surrounding me today; what I want is anything God can do for me to make me more desirable in my own eyes." To talk that way is a sign that the reality of the gospel of God has not begun to touch me. There is no reckless abandon to God in that. God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose— to proclaim the gospel of God (see Romans 9:3)."
Are you searching for significance? Only in Him will it be found!
It is NEVER about us, but about Him and Him alone! BY HIS GRACE WE STAND! At what cost will you abandon your dreams and desires to take up His cross? Do you truly desire to give Him your ALL, even if it means abandoning your personal dreams and desires?

God help us to become recklessly abandoned to your will!