"...I surrender all to You
I surrender all to You
I am nothing without You
Jesus Christ, take my life
It’s all for You..."
I surrender all to You
I am nothing without You
Jesus Christ, take my life
It’s all for You..."
(Planetshakers - Surrender)
Surrender. What's the first thing that comes to our mind? We often think surrender as something that is not good, giving up, losing and it's usually used in a negative view.
Surrender. What's the first thing that comes to our mind? We often think surrender as something that is not good, giving up, losing and it's usually used in a negative view."Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is true worship."
(Romans 12:1)
(Romans 12:1)
In God's view, the heart of worship is surrender. Only true worship will bring pleasure to God and that only happens when you offer yourself to him, sacrificing yourself. It's the living sacrifice! There will always be a cost when you offer your life to Him. You need to sacrifice something in order to see the change in your life. It can be something valuable or even your interest.
"You can now see that we please God by what we do and not only by what we believe."
(James 2:24)
(James 2:24)
Surrendering can be demonstrated by obedience and trust. If God ask you to do something, lets say something which seems quite impossible for you. Often we will hesitate, thinking that will we be able to do it. Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. If we hesitate, it means that we don't have the trust for Him. Therefore, we don't need an explanation when He asks us to do something. You will never get to understand commands until you obey them first. What God wants is instant obedience, it is the key to get closer to Him. Often we tend to offer delayed obedience or partial obedience. We only do it after having a long thought or we only choose to obey the ones we like. Yet, all these are disobedience and that will not please God.
"And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God."
(Romans 6:13)
(Romans 6:13)
"The LORD is pleased only with those who worship him and trust his love." (Psalm 147:11)
2 comments:
Many times we hesitate on surrendering all we have to God because of uncertainty for the future. We are humans, fallible in nature, and too stupid to contain the wisdom of time in understanding the future and what's ahead.
That's why we have God the Father to help us out.
See, the future and all it's fullness is in the plans and purposes of God for our lives. And the best thing to be assured of our future in the surrendering process is to know the will and purposes of God.
Now to know what a person wants for you, you have to KNOW the character, and the personality of the person in order to fully understand and say "oh, so that's what it is."
Likewise, we have to pursue to grasp all that we have in our humanly knowledge and understanding, limited in all it's fullness to TRY to understand an all supreme, and all knowing God.
So friends, pursue God and His righteousness, persistently, and surrender it all.
I'm really REALLY encouraged with you jinky baby. You don't know how much I am encouraged to see you encouraging me. haha
God bless you.
Haha! I agree with you.
So we encourage each other often more lo...lol!
God Bless
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