Total and Unconditional Surrender Derek McNamara A young man went in to a jewelry store and asked the jeweler, Please engrave this engagement ring, ‘From Tim to Cindy. The Jeweler replied, Take some advice, son, and just have ‘From Tim engraved. The point is clear: From Tim allows for a change of plan. Too many people want to receive the benefits of Christs awesome work, and yet they want to allow for a change of plan; they want to keep their options open. However, Jesus taught that it is impossible to do so. To be a disciple of Christ means to be a student of Christ. Not a follower, not a believer, not a churchgoer; rather, a student. The most important lesson every disciple of Christ must learn is the cost of being a disciple. Jesus plainly taught that if any one wants to be His disciple, he must follow Jesus example of dying. Remember that to take up your cross means that you must die to yourself so Christ can live in you. To take up your cross does not mean that you must bear a burden. It means that you must die. To be a true disciple of Christ we must die to ourselves, our way of thinking, our way of living because our thinking and living are efforts in futility and, paradoxically, they bring death. So to truly live now and to live eternally with God, we must die to ourselves. To live we must die. This is the call of being a disciple. The cost of being a disciple is not total commitment (that puts the emphasis on us), but total and unconditional surrender of ourselves to God.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 05:01:10 +0000
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