Thursday, February 21, 2013

It Starts With Surrender

My Utmost For His Highest
 
‘There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him even small gifts of surrender, just to show how genuine our love is for Him. To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness. Concern over our personal holiness causes us to focus our eyes on ourselves, and we become overly concerned about the way we walk and talk and look, out of fear of offending God. “. . . but perfect love casts out fear . . .” CHAMBERS
 
Personal holiness follows surrender .. it’s not the other way around.  Ephesians 2:8-9 says we are saved by grace through faith not effort.  Our new life in Christ starts with surrender and then the 2 Corinthians 5:17 thing happens .. old things pass away .. and all things become new … So what does it mean to be “in Christ”
 
First, of course, we must believe in Him .. Romans 10:9 and then we must live a surrendered life Romans 12:1-2.  Let’s look at those verses … Verse 1 – surrender … Verse 2 - be holy.  Do you see the sequence.  We are the branches and He is the Vine.  Jesus said to Peter .. love me then serve me … John 21:15-19
 
So stop trying to be good and surrender to the One who is good.
 
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

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