11- 17- 10 MI DAILY DEVOTION (II Chronicles 30:8)
“Y”- YIELD TO THE WORD OF GOD AND TO HIS WILL (ON CHRISTIAN’s ABC’s)
8- “Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.”
One single word could change the course of your life and future. Just a single word could even leads to death, life, freedom, blessings and we can go on and on… The word “yield” is a very powerful word. If you yield to God for your salvation; your life will be changed, your destiny will be determined and your future will make a difference. One of the rules in a fight in Ultimate Fighting Championship is “submission”- a fighter taps on the mat or his opponent three times (or more) or verbally submits.” (Wikipedia) “Submission” is the synonym of “yield”. Indeed, unless we submit or yield ourselves to God, His Word and His will, we will never win. It’s opposite to the rules of whatever sports, especially in boxing or martial arts. In Christianity, the more we surrender, submit or yield the more we win. The more sin you surrender, the more you win over sin, Satan and self. Here in the United States of America and some parts of the world, we have a traffic rules in which whether you’re in a freeway or residential area; once you see the sign “yield”, it means you really have to yield and give way to the oncoming vehicles or the vehicles behind you as you’re driving in into the freeway. You can get into a deadly accident if you will not yield. It’s just a single word, but it has made a lot of difference in traffic and in the lives of many. I had an accident with my wife few years ago, because a woman who was coming out from the subdivision did not yield to the vehicles with the right of way. It’s a good picture of what will happen to people who will not yield to God’s Word and will in their lives. (Romans 6:13, 16, 19) “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 16- Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 19- I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”
