Daily writing prompt

If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?

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No person, place, or thing is really mine. It’s meaningless for a slave to say, “This is mine.” Everything a slave has belongs to the one who owns him. We humans are slaves to time. In reality, we own nothing. Soon we will be gone away and the stuff that we talk about by saying, “This is mine,” will still be here. We will take no things with us.

So why wait for time to claim everything we think that we own? Why not admit the truth that all we have is only temporarily loaned to us? A young man, J.W. Van DeVenter, was struggling with that issue during the 1890s. After 5 years, he finally surrendered all to Jesus Christ and in 1896 he wrote the famous hymn, “I Surrender All.” Here are some of the lyrics:

All to Jesus, I surrender
All to Him, I freely give
I will ever love and trust Him
In His presence daily live.

All to Jesus, I surrender
Humbly at His feet, I bow
Worldly pleasures all forsaken
Take me, Jesus, take me now.

I surrender all.
I surrender all.
All to Thee, my blessed Saviour
I surrender all.

Embrace God’s Will and God’s Ways

Spirit-led ways
Will release
God’s inner waves
Of living water
And empower you
To surrender all!

The Spirit’s willing
But the flesh is weak.
Don’t let temptation
Compel you to seek
The things that you want
Instead of God’s will.
Be humble and meek.
Diligently seek
To follow Jesus.
Whatever you do
Listen to Him speak
Directly to you.

Be someone who prays
In Spirit-led ways.
Rejoice in the Lord
And give Him the praise.
Obey Him always.
Look beyond earth’s haze
And let your heart gaze
On Christ all your days.
Bask in the bright rays
Of His inner light.
Let Spirit-led ways
Release God’s great waves
Of living water
Within and through you.

Jesus didn’t die and rise from the dead so you can put your faith in and rely on a religious organization. Surrender all. Trust and rely on Him alone!

True success isn’t about accumulating things. It’s about inner peace, contentment, gratitude, mental health, and lasting happiness. The risen Jesus empowers people for that kind of success. Surrender and see!