Giving your Pineapple to God (Conclusion)
What is your pineapple?
Search your heart and ask God to reveal to you what it is that you are still hanging on to. When the natives denied him his right to eat his own pineapples, Nate got angry.

Maybe someone has hurt you by demanding your time, not respecting your opinions or ignoring you. You can use these feelings of hurt or anger as God's alarm system. Recognize that He is revealing an area of your life that you have not yet surrendered. Give those rights over to him, with the feelings of resentment or pain. He can and will give you the grace to accept the situation and love for the one who hurt you. You need only surrender and ask for the change.

Of Christ it was prophesied that he would “bind up the brokenhearted... proclaim liberty to the captives... comfort all that mourn... to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.” Isaiah 61:1, 3

Christ offers each one of us the garment of praise, his own robe of righteousness, but we cannot receive it while we are occupied with defending our rights or our heart is full of resentment.

Give all of your rights to God. Tell Him that both yourself, everything you are and all you own, is His to do whatever He sees best with. Purpose to thank God whatever happens. He may remove some rights from you, because He sees that they would harm you. Thank Him for this. Others He may loan you. Thank Him for these, too, but remember that they are not your rights, but privileges to be used in glorifying Him. Consult Him about how He wants them used.

An Example
A tenth part (the tithe) of all we earn is set aside as God's. In doing this, we are not giving God ten percent of our income, but acknowledging that all our money is His. A friend shared how remembering this stopped him in his tracks on a purchase. He said, “I thought to myself, if Jesus was physically standing here beside me, would I ask Him to give me some money to buy this?”

Have you given your "pineapple" to God?

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