I Surrender:
I surrender—I raise my hands over my head, bow my head, divert and lower my eyes, as I am led away.
I surrender—I give up and quit.
I surrender—I admit defeat and lose.
I surrender—I lay down my weapon and allow the victors to take my country, my town, my home, my family, my life.
I surrender—I tap out, throwing in the towel and leave the ring in defeat.
I surrender—I relinquish my position and resign.
I surrender—I abandon my home, walking away from everything I own.
I surrender—I submit, yielding my will and desires to someone else.
I surrender—I hand over control.
I surrender—I concede the race and pack it all in.
I surrender—I renounce my claims and capitulate.
Interesting, those are just some of the synonyms for surrender.
Hmm, so am I not to move a muscle until God directs me, I mean am I to wait each and every moment until I am instructed by the voice of God to do otherwise?
Am I totally surrendered because I won’t get out of bed and get dressed today—until the burning bush speaks?
At what point do I use the brains and motivation that God has given me?
How do I measure my level, depth, and understanding of surrendering?
What does surrender mean to you?
What, if anything, does the Bible say about surrender?
Where does the Bible discuss “surrender” and how do we achieve it?
I need YOU to help walk me through this one!
We’ll talk more…
4 comments:
I seem to be taking more breaks from my research today than usual...hence the reading and writings...
Anyhow, If I ever really learn what "surrender" truly means, I think I will already be with Jesus!
Surrender is like being in a waiting room...hanging out until your name is called.
It's that time of resting abiding, leaning and depending on Jesus that I have to wait. (just between you and me...I really dont like waiting too much :)
I am learning that waiting is what builds me to be the person he is creating, refining, molding and shaping me to be.
It cant be done in my own strength!
Funny, you dont usually think of surrender as something that would require you to have strength from someone else. But sometimes, I need that strength to help me when I can only "surrender" for 30 min. at a time!
Whether its from my desires all the way to my inadequacies, they all require me to lean on him and his power to make it thru...
At the cross, the thief gave way to the power of surrender, and Jesus himself did as well. He even asked the cup be taken from him...needing to surrender unto the Father and his strength.
There is a reason we lift our hands to our Savior in surrender.. because in effect, we are saying "I give up...I give it to you"
Ah! This jouney of faith that's full of hope and love, mercy and grace! -sigh
blessings!
Saun
This entry came at quite an appropriate time. I had just come back from a Praise & Prayer night or "Holy Spirit Night" at my church. It was a pretty good time with the Lord and it was bizarre because I was asking for prayer for my the financial situation of my family, although I wanted to pray for even more than that but that was all I could get out. The word I got from one person praying for me was she saw all of us in a dark room where there is a door that I must step through by faith and she also said that I just needed to surrender. As soon as she said that my Spirit was moved. I told her that I have been dealing with that issue lately. I have been exploring the aspect of surrender and worship or surrender in worship to God.
Often during my times of worship my mind goes in so many different directions. God seems to be training me to be still and I also keep getting the word abandon. I don't think I have learned to completely abandon or surrender myself to worship for various reasons.
Up until the last few months I thought that I was trusting God with my life. But He as been showing me areas of my life that have led to a subtle distrust in my spirit toward God. I fooled myself in reciting Christanese platitudes or putting on a my brave faith face. I am in a place of recognizing times in my life where I said the right words but did not reflect my real feelings of confusion or even distrust to let God work it out in me. My surrender is becoming more "real" than I have ever been in all my 19 years as a Christian. It begins with my repentance and ends with worship. I look at the Psalms and see how David would worship and to me that is an example of surrender and abandon
Psalm 5:1-3 (NASB)
Give ear to my words O Lord, consider my groaning 2 Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God for Thee do I pray.
3 In the morning, O Lord, Thou wilt hear my voice In the morning I will order my Prayer to Thee and eagerly watch.
Surrender is nothing I do but an allowing of God to search my heart for anything that might get in the way of my worship of Him. I don't know if this makes any sense but that is my take on surrender.
God is good ALL THE TIME!!
Cora
surrender = give up control.
human started sin from trying to take control the life right at the beginning.
So I guess if we give up and surrender to God, we will be soaking in God's grace and love and lead a free life.
en...wa...learned a lot from reading the whole page...thank u~~
maybe in one way it's as easy (and as difficult) as simply saying "Thank You."
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