EVERYthing

I went to church on Sunday at Port au Prince Fellowship.  It had been awhile since we had mission teams on top of transportation issues.  I was hungry and thirsty to hear from God, and He filled my cup to overflowing!
We started by reading Psalm 66:
¹ Shout joyful praises to God, all the earth!
    ² Sing about the glory of his name!
      Tell the world how glorious he is.
 ³ Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
      Your enemies cringe before your mighty power.
 ⁴ Everything on earth will worship you;
      they will sing your praises,
      shouting your name in glorious songs.”
Then we started singing.  The first song, Jesus Everything, was one I'd sung a time or two before.  This time, every time I sang the words, it began to sink in that to me, Jesus is some things, a lot of things, most things, but not everything.  The more I sang "Jesus everything" the more I wondered what that would look like in my life.  Then we sang Everlasting God, All Creatures of our God and King, and finally Refiner's Fire.
All awesome songs to prepare my heart for what was coming next.  The text of the message: Acts 20:22-24--
²² “And now I am bound by the Spirit^[a] to go to Jerusalem. I don’t know what awaits me, ²³ except that the Holy Spirit tells me in city after city that jail and suffering lie ahead. ²⁴ But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

I began to write things that stuck with me from the message.  It seemed as if the message were directed straight at me.  Here are some things I've been pondering this past week:

• Paul was being prodded, taken, pulled to a place he didn't want to go.  This pulling and prodding was being done by the Spirit of God.
• If God is everything in my life, I will find myself going to places I don't really want to go, and doing things I don't really want to do.
• But my God who IS everything will give me everything I need to do what He's called me to do.
• My life is worth nothing if I don't do what I've been called to do, the ministry I've been given by God.
• God promises it won't be easy, but He'll do it with me.
• According to Paul, there is nothing too much to surrender, give, or loose to submit to the call of God.
• The safest place to be is where God has called you.

As I was taking all of this in, this question came into my mind, "What does it look like to live fearlessly?"  I have no doubt that the Spirit planted that question for me.  And it requires an answer, which I don't fully have yet.  I know that it will mean that I have to continue to let go of things  that I thought I'd already let go of, and honestly and completely surrendering to Christ until He truly is my everything.