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faith matters
LOVE GAVE ALL FOR US
ANDRÉ & JENNY ROEBERT
Like the Apostle Paul, I do believe the missing link to un- Secondly, as mentioned before, trying to preserve our own
derstanding the true meaning of absolute surrender to the will, actually stems from a place of mistrust. Mistrust stems
person, nature and will of God, is LOVE itself. Love is what from rejection, and rejection comes from our needs not be-
answers the question, why we should surrender all and ing met. Adam and Eve had no reason to mistrust the Lord,
completely sacrifice our own self-preservation, to become He had crowned them with His glory. Everything they would
one with our Creator. ever need was placed within them. But the devil had, and
still has absolutely no understanding of what it means to be
Did you know, that this fight for self-preservation and inde- completely fulfilled and satisfied by the presence of the Liv-
pendence, is in actual fact based on an internal struggle ing God. He was and is driven by an inferno of selfish desire
with fear? Fear of losing our identity and freedom. Fear of and self-preservation. He believes his ultimate need is to be
losing our rights, or being done in by someone who doesn’t elevated and worshiped, like God. And for the remainder
have our best interests at heart. How can we possibly sur- of his existence, this destructive, misdirected passion will
render all and trust someone completely, if there is even the burn in Him and continue to fuel his self-indulgent appetite
hint of a chance of ulterior motives or mistrust? Isn’t that the and compulsive desire to be sovereign, all powerful and
very thought process the devil whispered into Adam and worshiped, with absolutely no regard for anyone else.
Eve’s minds in the garden? The very mindset that took root
in their souls and caused them to forfeit their authority and So, when he saw how mankind was so easily, just given, just
identity. That’s rather ironic isn’t it? Their fight for a false iden- handed dominion and authority over all, at creation; he,
tity is what caused them to lose their original one. being the opportunist he is, used his deceptive skills to take
what he so desperately desired for himself. All it took was a
The thing is, if, like Adam and Eve, we do hold on to this seed from his selfish, misdirected nature. If he could plant
quest for self-preservation, of conforming to our own will; in a seed of mistrust and the delusion of self-preservation, he
reality, it only leads to dissatisfaction and disappointment. knew it would produce the results of rebellion and separa-
Firstly, because we were never created to live independent tion, or so called independence. Man who had his identity
of the Father, because we simply aren’t ‘wired’ that way. in God, lost it, in an attempt to find it in himself.
We were designed to only be complete and fulfilled in Him.
