You Are In Control Of How Long You Live In This World #1

Just before Jesus died at the cross, he cried out Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.

Luk 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

commend= G3908 παρατίθημι paratithēmi par-at-ith'-ay-mee
From G3844 and G5087; to place alongside, that is, present (food, truth); by implication to deposit (as a trust or for protection): - allege, commend, commit (the keeping of), put forth, set before.


Notice, Stephen did the same.
Act 7:59 As they continued to stone Stephen, he kept praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

receive = G1209 δέχομαι dechomai dekh'-om-ahee
Middle voice of a primary verb; to receive (in various applications, literally or figuratively): - accept, receive, take. Compare G2983.

Jesus place His Spirit into the Father's hand. Stephen commanded God to receive his spirit.

Key Points To Note

1. Both did not sleep until they give up their spirit.
2. If God decide, who is Jesus to place His Spirit.........Likewise, who is Stephen to command God to receive his spirit.
3. Stephen would have known that he will die under stoning. So why asked God to receive his spirit if the outcome is that he will eventually died a natural dead from stoning.
4. Is it too presumptuous on Stephen's part that God will not protect him and will receive him? How would he know that it is time for him to leave the world. Wouldn't he afraid to offend God if indeed it is God that decide when you leave the world?