Preventive restraint

Dr. Roberto Miranda
Dr. Roberto Miranda

SUMMARY: The key to a secure and protected life is an attitude of complete surrender to God's will, which is reflected in Psalm 131. However, many people struggle with willful disobedience, like the story of Diana, who repeatedly chose her own way over God's. The only way to prevent this is through obedience to God's commands, as advised by Solomon in Proverbs 3. The cost of disobedience is high, but obedience is like medicine and food for the body and soul.

God's purpose throughout our entire spiritual career is to produce in us an attitude of complete surrender, of absolute yield to His will; breaking down and training ourselves until only the ingrained instinct to submit to the least pressure of the divine Spirit remains in us.

I call this "preventive restraint." It is a fundamental attitude that governs all aspects and actions of our life, an unconscious disposition to obey God in any situation, no matter how strong the temptation to go in another direction. In that pliable and humble posture of the believer there is infinite security and inviolable protection.

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