In His Hands

A Journal Submitted by:  Susan Mucklow

Susan, cling to Me in the journey, through the journey and as the journey.  Trust that every portion of the journey is put to good use in My hands.  When you feel particularly brave, you even have My permission to trust that each portion of the journey is intended by Me.

When you feel resistant toward Me it’s okay to regret the resistance you feel – but remain gracious and remember that I use every lesson you learn to your own benefit and on behalf of others. Were you not experiencing all that you are experiencing (while in this process of developing this undivided trust), then others would miss the tangible example of Who I am and how I operate. Those whom the Father has given Me are the living hope of and for others. The diversity of how I unfold in each of My children is reason enough to stay clear of the tendency to put Me in a box!

I will always complete the circle in you, Susan.  I bring you from resistance to compliance, unwillingness to willingness, and disobedience to obedience.  My reign over your heart is proven and My surety is made visable to others thereby.  What I have done in one I will do in another.  The circumstances and methods differ but the outcome is the same – the emergence of Christ in you, living His life as your very own. Each person’s process is intimately unique but bears the common earmark of my continual influence over the result.

Along the way you may find that many things are contrived as directives that do not proceed from My heart. There is a heavy influence, manipulation, and misuse of authority in any religious model. You can always know when it is  “My request” because I will not leave you alone in the process it takes to get you from unwillingness to willingness.

There is no need to “obey” out of guilt or obligation. Obey out of the surrender that natually occurs when My presence effectually melts your fear and resistance. Trust me to do this for you.  Contrived obedience will only serve man and exhausts the “obedient one.”

Yes, I use even the “coerced obediences” and “imaginary commands” to complete My work in you. As your awareness of Me grows you begin to recognize the difference between external influences and the internal ones that proceed from Me. All is really well, Susan, for I am good AND sovereign!

I lead to and I lead away.  I lead in and out of pasture.  I ask one to enter and another to exit, one to do and another not to do.  Intimacy with Me is your safegaurd against the conscious and unconscious manipulation of man.  Union awareness offers the assurance that I am your Purpose.  My authority takes the liberty to exibit Myself through you uniquely, distinctly, and specifically. Allowing for distinction in the way I will lead, guide, and direct one child over another breeds confidence in a very big God!

Father, I see the confinement of cookie cutter Christianity. You work in so many mysterious ways. How often have I imposed the ‘way You are in me’ upon another? As if to suggest that their steps should look the same as mine.

Lord, be Yourself through me…even if it seems so different that it makes my teeth chatter!

Even so, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray, if we are to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which baffle speech to utter; but he who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because it is by God’s will that he intercedes for those whose lives are consecrated to God. We know that God intermingles all things for good for those who love him, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he knew long ago he long ago designed to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the first born among many brothers. Those whom he long ago designed for this purpose, he also called; and those whom he called he put into a right relationship with himself; and those whom he put into a right relationship with himself he also glorified.

Romans 8:26-28 AMP