Now Archer, who is smart as a whip (however smart that is), was pretty slow to start talking and his words were few for the first several years. If I remember the story correctly, he was sitting in church one Sunday with his family and leaned over to Donna with a request. "Mom I want to say a word" to which she replied OK. He then said "Lord". Now I do not know what was going through his mind just then, but I thought what he wanted to say was profound.
Chambers says today: "There are areas of self-will in our lives where our pride pours contempt on the throne of God and says, "I won't submit." We deify our independence and self-will and call them by the wrong name. What God sees as stubborn weakness, we call strength. There are whole areas of our lives that have not yet been brought into submission, and this can only be done by this continuous conversion. Slowly but surely we can claim the whole territory for the Spirit of God."
I am quick to give Jesus the name of Savior, and sometimes I am even pretty quick to give him the title of "Lord", but is He really? I even catch myself in prayer often using the title, but then realizing that maybe I should not because it is not evident in my life that He actually is.
Thanks Archer, for reminding me of where I should be in my relationship to my Savior, and I thank God, too, that He has not given up on me for taking such a long time to get there.
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