Last night during worship with some friends, a song came on with these piercing words,

 

Make me Your vessel

Make me an offering

Make me whatever You want me to be.

 

As worship continued the word, “Whatever” seemed so highlighted in my heart.

 

“Make me WHATEVER…”

 

It’s the “whatever” that can trip us up often because we usually have our own idea of what we are going to do in the kingdom.

 

But the WHATEVER life submits to the will of God at all times knowing that He is the Master and I am the bondservant.

 

Are you willing to do WHATEVER Christ desires whether you like it or not? Whether you go alone or with a crowd? Whether others approve or not? Whether it costs your life or leads to your death both figuratively, and possibly, literally?

 

WHATEVER is an openhanded surrender. An “I’ll give you everything.”

 

It’s the life of the true request of a pure heart, “Make me a vessel….make me an offering. Make me WHATEVER…. You want me to be.”

 

It’s where the shift becomes all about Him because it is no longer I who lives but Christ who lives in me.

 

It’s where the knees bend fully and your whisper is “WHATEVER, Lord, my life is yours to do what you wish.”

 

It can be a bit risky to offer up the “WHATEVER” because it often is not what one’s heart desires.

 

The western Church is bent to go her own way following often her own heart. Yet, this is not way it was meant to be.

 

We were meant to bow to the King of all Kings and say, “Make me WHATEVER…you want me to be.”

 

In the WHATEVER, no matter how difficult, is a flourishing land of milk and honey whereby no matter the consequences of following The Way, the joy of the Lord becomes our strength.