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Desire is the God-given passion that compels me to make a difference. When it comes to desire or passion, there’s one key spiritual life principle that we have to get is we want to live life God’s way: God does not want you to be committed. He wants you to be surrendered.
Commitment is me and my power — I can do it!
Surrender calls us to yield our lives to God first.
Commitment is saying that I’ll do better.
Surrender is having the confidence that God will do His work through me as I live my
life.
Commitment is me and my best effort.
Surrender is me allowing God’s competency to work through me.
When we learn and live out this principle, we experience the rest and peace that we were meant to have. Then our passion and desire is not grounded in self-effort or self-determination which won’t last. It will be grounded in Christ in us (Galatians 2:19-21).