Published by “The salvation which comes from God means being completely delivered from myself, and being placed into perfect union with Him. It means that the Spirit of God has brought me into intimate contact with the true Person of God Himself. And as I am caught up into total surrender to God, I become thrilled with something infinitely greater than myself.”
This is something that I have been learning about a lot in my own life. For many years, I thought that I could go through life depending on myself to do everything. All it did was get me to a dark place where even I hated what I had become. However, God is gracious and merciful and He knew I needed Him more than I knew. Like a Father, He whipped me! He took those things that were not good for me that I loved and He took away those things that I did love. He left me in a place where I had no choice but to go to Him and as my Pastor would say I had to bow down and apologize. I had to surrender everything and I mean everything to Him, from my family down to my Pepsi. (OK, I know that is funny but I had to start drinking caffeine free Pepsi for my health.) I guess that what I am trying to say in all of this is that we must truly depend on the One that gave us His all, His only begotten Son. Could you imagine what that would be like to give up your own child to save everyone? (John 3:16)
Now by no means am I saying that this is easy to do, for me surrendering to Him is a daily thing, sometimes every minute. You see my flesh wants that which is not good, but His Spirit in me wants what is right and righteous before Him. Therefore, I gladly wake up and give it all to Him. I let Him carry my cross and I thank Him each day for blessing me with everything that He has given me, has done for me, and will continue to bless me with presently. All I have to do is love Him and build upon the relationship with Him that He has freely given me. So this morning as I ponder about my life I urge you also to surrender all to Him. As I do so again this morning.
