Romans 6:13 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.

Yesterday I quoted my favorite and most meaningful passage of the bible. During the study of this God revealed I had it wrong all these years. Was I to hold my opinion over God’s revelation or confess my limited ability and agree with God?

I yield my opinion to God. I did not regret my mistake for my opinion held sway over an immature mind and encouraged me to press on where I needed to be encouraged. In days past I would have taken this revelation as rejection, flogged myself for my stupidity, and taken a step backwards to try and identify where I had gone wrong.

Today, more mature, knowimg God better that I did in days gone past, I yield without complaint, without shame, without any sense of being wrong, and see that I am still able to grow in Christ.

The old man would have doubted himself and searched out every thought as to value and truth. I would have lost confidence in my very thoughts and doubted every action that I take. The new man, the more mature man yields to God for allowing my error to work good to a mind that was not yet ready to hear a better truth.

Praise be to God that His promise of conformance is now witnessed in my mind, being not only able but willing to let go of what I think and believe in favor of truth. Acceptance of this began with an awareness of the fruit of the spirit. One can see the fruit of the spirit, yet like any fruit, it matures with time.

Young fruit is small, hard, faint in color, and not ready to yield a seed of its own.

I yielded.