August 3, 2008
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Absolute Surrender
God is the Fountain of life, the only Source of existence and power and
goodness. Throughout the universe there is nothing good but what God works. God
has created the sun, the moon, the stars, the flowers, the trees, and the
grass. Are they not all absolutely surrendered to God? Do they not allow God to
work in them just what He pleases? When God clothes the lily with its beauty,
is it not yielded up, surrendered, given over to God as He works in it its
beauty?
And God's redeemed children, oh, can you think that God can do His work if
there is only half or a part of them surrendered? God cannot do it. God is
life, love, blessing, power, and infinite beauty, and God delights in
communicating Himself to every child who is prepared to receive Him. But ah!
this one lack of absolute surrender is just the thing that hinders God.
You know in daily life what absolute surrender is. You know that everything
has to be given up to its special, definite object and service. I have a pen in
my pocket, and that pen is absolutely surrendered to the one work of writing.
That pen must be absolutely surrendered to my hand if I am to write properly
with it. If another holds it partly, I cannot write properly.
This coat is absolutely given up to me to cover my body. This building is
entirely given up to religious services. And now, do you expect that in your mortal
being, in the divine nature that you have received by regeneration, God can
work His work, every day and every hour, unless you are entirely given up to
Him? God cannot.
The temple of Solomon was absolutely surrendered to God when it was
dedicated to Him. And every one of us is a temple of God, in which God will
dwell and work mightily on one condition-absolute surrender to Him. God claims
it, God is worthy of it, and without it God cannot work His blessed work in us.God not only claims it, but God will work it Himself.
(Quotes all from Andrew Murray)
Comments (2)
Wow! I just wrote (on someone else's blog) about the simplicity of worshiping like young children. They trust God, because He's God, without trying to make everything so hard and complicated.
surrender...to give up myself freely to another.....but isn't that what Jesus did?????? He freely gave up His life for us.....interesting....blessing on your week...
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