Is He Lord?

Romans 10:9-13
These verses essentially say that salvation comes from 1) belief in Christ's resurrection and 2) confession that Jesus is Lord. 

How long has it been since you confessed that Jesus is your Lord? Dictionary.com states that "to confess" is "to own or admit as true, to declare, to acknowledge one's belief or faith in, declare adherence to." How long has it been since you confessed that Jesus is your Lord? 

Which leads to the next question: How is He Lord of your life? Are you living in such a way that He, indeed, is LORD of you? I like what I read about this subject from Covenant Kingdom Ministries: "I believe the apostles of the Bible had a deeper understanding of the concept of Lordship than we do and yet they addressed Jesus as their Lord, or their Lord and Savior. They were all from a culture that understood that to refer to someone as their Lord meant that the Lord was their master, or owner, or supreme authority and that their only function was to serve their Lord. In our society today, especially in our Western culture, we do not want anyone to Lord it over us. After all, we are free and independent people. We must prefer Jesus to be our Savior because that appeals to us -- to be saved from the consequences of our sins -- it is very humanistic. What is really difficult is to say that Jesus is Lord in our lives and really mean it and live it. Not just say it as a Christian slogan."

Is Jesus your supreme authority? Or do you tend to take matters into your own hands? Do you consult Him on every level or do you do what seems right in your own eyes, tinted and tainted by your past experiences and nature?

We may not fully understand what "Lord" entails, but we most likely know what "boss" infers. According to Dr. Charles Stanley, "Boss" can be a laymans term for our understanding of "Lord." Before a person makes a decision for the business, an employee would consult the boss for instruction and approval before moving forward. The same would be for the life of the Christian: to consult our "boss"--our Lord--for instruction and approval. If the boss has a different approach or different direction he would like to go, the employee changes his approach and direction and follows the lead of his employer. Are you confident in your own approach to everyday life or are you seeking direction and approval from "the Boss" and then following and obeying Him? Are you ALLOWING Him to be Lord? If not, you are attempting to place yourself in that position, a position for which we are 
far from qualified.

We must each ask ourselves the two very important and telling questions: Are we confessing publicly that Christ is our Lord, and are we living in a way that acknowledges He is indeed our Lord?