First Presbyterian Church Of Baton Rouge

It is a matter of trust. By no means easy. For if I release my will to this Jesus, will he turn out to be a tyrant? Or an abuser? A controller? A stifler? Or will he turn out to be the one who died and rose to everlasting life and wants to share that life with me? Am I willing to trust the one who pre-paid his love for me? He already expended himself entirely on my behalf. Can I not now trust that his way is the way to life? If you are on the outside looking in today, you know what a risk this is. To give up ownership claims to your life. To entrust yourself to a faithful Savior. Might he turn out to be a harsh Master? It’s a risk. But you sit surrounded by people who will testify to you that Jesus is good. That he is love. That we found comfort in life and in death when we submitted to the truth that we belong not to ourselves. We are not our own, but his. And paradoxically, in his service we find freedom. In dying with Christ to self, we find that we live, more alive and more ourselves than ever before.