S4 Ep. 273 Surrender At The Feet Of Truth

SPEAKER_01: There are certain positions you take in life that speaks volume. So my children always wonder why Daddy likes the floor. Why does he like lying down? So one of those days my walk my daughter, ten year old, walked into the room and she saw me on the floor again. And she said, Daddy, why are you lying down on the floor like one conquered? And I mused and laughed. I said, Yes, I have been conquered by the truth. So there's nothing I can do but to lie down at the feet of the truth. SPEAKER_02: So this is one thing I learned from my mother growing up. SPEAKER_01: She prayed. She was a woman of prayer. Her posture was always on the floor. She lies down and she prays her heart out, battling and all of that. I used to, you know, like my daughter walking on her praying, and all I do is I take that same position or that posture. There are certain postures you take that will only reveal the victory. Like my daughter said, you are lying down like one conquered. SPEAKER_02: A lot of us, a lot of us, we we exhibit certain character attitude because we have been conquered. SPEAKER_01: And he or the conqueror is now living his life or her life through us. The story of Jesus is one of conquest. You know, those who walked with him, those who followed him, those who, you know, he always taught things, he always said things, and the only way they could appreciate it, leave it was to be conquered. And one of those episodes when he was speaking, he was teaching, and those words were so heavy, and people started leaving. They didn't want to be conquered. And he turned to his disciples and like, okay, what about you? And they said to him, we're going nowhere. SPEAKER_02: You have what we need. So if you conquer us, so be it. SPEAKER_01: So over the years I've come to see that most of the things I do as a person, it's from a place of one who has been conquered. Not by self, not by pride. They're conquered by the truth. So I try my best. SPEAKER_00: So my children always, they always come and they always say, Daddy, why do you like lying down on the floor? There's so much around here. The bed is there, cheers at the bed, why do you like it? And when I tell them the reason, they they seem not to understand it. You must have that comfortable position in life to fight. SPEAKER_01: You must take that comfortable position. So, what's that comfortable position? A position of the conquered. Yeah. The conquered. You know that he who has conquered you, he who has taken over your life is now leaving his essence through you. So, do you want to, should I say, change that position? No, because the conqueror does his best with the conquered or to the conquered. Will I keep lying down? Will I keep taking that posture? It's not a posture of defeat, it's a posture of surrender. It is not a posture of lack. It's a posture of availability. It is not a posture of servitude, but it is a posture of servanthood being conquered. I don't want to leave it. I don't want to change this position in life. So I'll go through life. I'll go through everything taking this posture every day of my life, lying down, not on the floor of death, not on the floor of dust, but at the feet of the master, at the feet of him who had conquered me. Well, if you say that is detestful, I don't think so. I remember again one of the stories, Mary and Martha. One sat at the feet of the master to listen to his word conquered, while the other was just running everywhere, going from one place to the other. And the question came up, and the master answered, your sister has taken the best position, sitting or lying down at the feet of the master. Life can throw you a lot of challenges. Life can bring a lot. But listen, at the feet of the master, lying down, that's where you are you find the answer. So I will continue to lie down because I have been conquered by the truth. There's no shame. There's nothing to hide. There's nothing to conceal from the truth. But right now I want the truth to wash over me. I want to be enveloped by the truth. SPEAKER_02: I want the truth to lead me, to guide me. Beautiful. Daddy has been conquered.