Surrender is not the surrender of the external life, but of the will; when that is done, all is done. There are very few crises in life; the great crisis is the surrender of the will. God never crushes a man's will into surrender, He never beseeches him, He waits until the man yields up his will to Him. That battle never needs to be re-fought.
Surrender for Deliverance. "Come
unto Me and I will give you rest." It is after we have begun to experience
what salvation means that we surrender our wills to Jesus for rest. Whatever is
perplexing heart or mind is a call to the will - "Come unto Me." It
is a voluntary coming.
Surrender for Devotion. "If
any man will come after Me, let him deny himself." The surrender here is
of my self to Jesus, my self with His rest at the heart of it. "If you
would be My disciple, give up your right to yourself to Me." Then the
remainder of the life is nothing but the manifestation of this surrender. When
once the surrender has taken place we never need "suppose" anything.
We do not need to care what our circumstances are, Jesus is amply sufficient.
Surrender for Death. John
21:18-19. ". . . another shall gird thee." Have you learned what it
means to be bound for death? Beware of a surrender which you make to God in an
ecstasy; you are apt to take it back again. It is a question of being united
with Jesus in His death until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal
to Him.
After surrender - what? The whole of the life after
surrender is an aspiration for unbroken communion with God.
By Oswald Chambers
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