The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine
what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for
having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I
am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself.
Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I
yielded myself to Him.
If a child gives in to selfishness, he will find it to be the most
enslaving tyranny on earth. There is no power within the human soul
itself that is capable of breaking the bondage of the nature created by
yielding. For example, yield for one second to anything in the nature of
lust, and although you may hate yourself for having yielded, you become
enslaved to that thing. (Remember what lust is— “I must have it now,”
whether it is the lust of the flesh or the lust of the mind.) No release
or escape from it will ever come from any human power, but only through
the power of redemption. You must yield yourself in utter humiliation
to the only One who can break the dominating power in your life, namely,
the Lord Jesus Christ. “. . . He has anointed Me . . . to proclaim
liberty to the captives . . .” (Luke 4:18 and Isaiah 61:1).
When you yield to something, you will soon realize the tremendous
control it has over you. Even though you say, “Oh, I can give up that
habit whenever I like,” you will know you can’t. You will find that the
habit absolutely dominates you because you willingly yielded to it. It
is easy to sing, “He will break every fetter,” while at the same time
living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. But yielding to Jesus will
break every kind of slavery in any person’s life.
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