SURRENDER Part 2 What is surrender? If we can understand what it is, perhaps we can better lay hold of it. Surrender is casting off all your cares and dropping all your needs. This includes spiritual needs. I repeat, surrender is laying aside, forever, all of your spiritual needs. All Christians have spiritual needs; but the believer who has surrendered himself to the Lord no longer indulges in the luxury of being aware of spiritual needs. Rather, he gives himself over completely to the disposal of God. Do you realise that all Christians have been exhorted to surrender? The Lord Himself has said: Take no thought for tomorrow, for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all those things. (Mt. 6.32-34) Again the Scripture says: In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path. (Prov. 3.6) Commit your ways to the Lord, trust in Him, and He will bring it to pass. (Psalm 37.5) True surrender must cover two complete worlds, two realms. There must be a surrender in your life concerning all outward things. All your concerns go into the hands of God. You forget yourself, and from that moment on you think only of Him. By continuing to do this over a long period of time, your heart will remain unattached; your heart will be free and at peace. Surrender is practiced by continually losing your own will in the will of God; by plunging your will into the depth of His will, there to be lost forever. And how do you begin? You must begin by refusing every personal desire that comes to you just as soon as it arises - no matter how good that personal desire is, and no matter how helpful it may appear. Surrender must reach a point where you stand in complete indifference to yourself. You can be sure that out of such disposition a wonderful result will come. The result of this attitude will, in fact, bring you to the most wonderful point imaginable, where you become completely free to be joined to the will of God. You will desire only what He desires, that is, what He desired for all eternity. Become surrendered by simply resigning yourself to what the Lord wants, in all things, no matter what they are, where they come from, or how they affect your life. Surrender is forgetting your past, leaving the future in His hands; it is devoting the present fully to your Lord. Surrender is being satisfied with the present moment, no matter what it contains, because you know it is Gods eternal plan for you. Remember, you must never blame people for anything. No matter what happens, it was neither people or circumstances that brought. it. You must accept everything (except, of course, your own sinfulness) as having come from the Lord. Surrender yourself to allow Him to do with you as He pleases - both in your inward life of experiencing Him and also in your outward life of accepting all circumstances from Him. (by Jeanne Guyon)
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