If the Lord wills, we will live

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: Surrendering to the Will of God means adopting an attitude of total subjection and always seeking His guidance. In James 4:13 onwards, James warns against Christians who live as if they are independent and rebel against God's Will. He urges them to adopt the correct attitude of total surrender, saying "if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." This level of surrender means acknowledging God's right to do whatever He wants in our lives, even if it means taking us prematurely. The believer's attitude should be one of total subjection and surrender to God's Will, always looking towards Him for guidance and protection.

The position of being totally surrendered to the Will of God, of being as slaves before the Father's designs has very practical implications that help us to frame in a more precise way the way in which we relate to God and the way in which we all interpret the events of our life in the light of the Lordship of God.

Here we have now, in James, another of those texts that invite us to see the practical implications of this position that the Lord tries to instill in us through His parable of the servant who, at the end of everything, after having done everything what his master asks of him must be considered as a useless servant, and we have said that what the Lord wants to establish in us is the attitude of always seeking the Will of God, always looking towards Him instead of looking towards us.

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