Wednesday, July 13, 2011

How To Surrender To God Living A Life Of Freedom

By Burton Rager


A question that stirs thoughts of battle or losing in the minds of many. We are taught to live life to its fullest, to be dependent on ourselves, to conquer, to win, to overcome. If we are able to visualize or paint an image of the result we wish we can succeed. God's plan is quite the opposite. Learning how to surrender to God truly leads to a life of liberty.

It's the Holy Spirit that brings us to the cross and causes us to face the grim reality of our need to die to the world and sin. We can never live a life that's beyond our hopes until we have died to ourselves. Look at what a dear friend declared regarding surrendering to God, "For me, this has been the greatest key to walking in joy, peace, and freedom is allowing Him to rid me of self (a lifetime process)"

The excitement of surrendering your life to God is something you must experience yourself. Nobody can explain it. You must experience what it implies to surrender to God for yourself.

Surrender must come as a real reply from your heart. Think about the difficulties you are presently wrestling with and then imagine I say to you, "Just surrender them to God and give Him control." My spouse of 27 years died when she was only 51 years of age , and at first I wasn't prepared to hear those words: "Just surrender everything to God and give Him control." Those words would have looked wicked at that time in my life. However , as God graciously reminded me over the passage of time surrender is what He wants from us. His desire for my life is that I surrender to Him, giving Him complete control. (With time, it also became just what I wanted to do.)

Think about how you are carrying the burdens of hurt, agony and emptiness in your life. God doesn't want you to live with those burdens. He wants you to give Him every hurt, each pain, and every circumstance you're going through. There's nothing in this world more important or more exciting than surrendering everything to God. Your surrendering to Him will lead directly to healing, transformation, and an abundant life, larger than you ever imagined achievable.

Trust in the LORD with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he'll make your paths straight.

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