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Bridled?

What a wonderful thing it would be to have this thought in our hearts: “Jesus, I love to obey You.” Personal communion with the Savior will be followed by the joy of personal service and allegiance. Are you ready to obey in all humility and weakness and reverence? Can you say, “Yes, Lord Jesus, I will obey”? If so, give yourself up to Him completely. Then your thinking will be, “I am not going to speak one word if I think that Jesus would not like to hear it. I am not going to have an opinion of my own, but my whole life is going to be covered with the purity of Christ’s obedience to the Father and His self-sacrificing love for me. I want Christ to have my whole life, my whole heart, my whole character. I want to be like Christ and to obey.” Give yourself up to this loving obedience. -Andrew Murray, The Practice of God's Presence, p.288  James 3:2-3 ASV - 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body ...