Here is another hard lesson the Lord continues to try to teach me.
I listened this morning to the hymn, “I surrender all.” Many of you know the song: “All to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely give; I will ever love and trust Him, in His presence daily live. I surrender all, I surrender all; All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.”
That song challenges me every time I think about the lyrics.
“I surrender all” to Jesus means more than a simple surrender of my time, talent, and treasure. I must ALSO every day surrender my expectations, my hopes, and my response to God’s ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to my prayers. I must surrender it all to God’s will.
Nor must surrendering it all to God be a sullen resignation. That is not what God hopes from us, a sullen resignation. Rather my surrender of all should be a child-like offering of all that I have and for all that I hope.
All of it.
That’s what “I surrender all” means.
Oh, Lord, change my heart – every day – that I might every day surrender all. Amen.
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