absolute surrender

I have stumbled upon a beautiful text this morning written by Andrew Murray called Absolute Surrender. Read it here.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/comm_view.cfm?AuthorID=18&contentID=4613&commInfo=21&topic=Absolute%20Surrender

Its long, but so so worth it. But in case you don’t want to, I’ll go into a little bit and the way God is stirring in my heart. I really struggle and worry about what God wants from us. And I get very concerned about the church, especially the church ehre in the u.s. The only church I really know anything of. And I want to know what our life is supposed to be. The life all of us are called to who submit to the lordship of jesus Christ and my life. What it means just in me. In the secret moments when I am alone, in every interaction with people, in future job and calling in school and with family, all of that. I don’t want to miss it. I don’t want to waste time or wish I had run harder or settle for mind numbing distractions and the false glitter or human success or accomplishment.

And so I am reading this commentary and the writer says,

But in Scotland once I was in a company where we were talking about the condition of Christ's Church, and what the great need of the Church and of believers is; and there was in our company a godly worker who has much to do in training workers, and I asked him what he would say was the great need of the Church, and the message that ought to be preached. He answered very quietly and simply and determinedly:

"Absolute surrender to God is the one thing."

That is Gods demand. Are we willing? To pray that right now? God I surrender myself and all of my life to thee. Take me, Lord. Do with me as you will. I am all yours. And normally I think to myself, Yes, that is beautiful. But praying it? I’ve prayed it before, meant it, and then slipped back into complacency. And “normal life” but this text addresses that really well. It says that God expects my surrender, accomplishes my surrender, accepts my surrender, maintains my surrender and blesses when we surrender.