Absolute Surrender - Humility

Absolute Surrender \ Humility

It's a matter of the will. I mean things like sacrifice looks like absolute surrender, but my will can still be stubborn. It's turning over my will to His will. An example would be when you give tithes. I might place my 10% in the offering, yet in my heart, despising that fact I did it. Better yet, refusing to put into the basket according to how God prospered me. Or maybe it’s going over to someone whom I have offended, and asking them for forgiveness.

Absolute surrender is the place we come to, that looks like the Garden of Gethsemane. Surely this was the place where Jesus demonstrates His absolute surrender to the Father? "Not my will but your will be done."(Luke 22:42)

Obedience is the key! That is why God has said, "to obey is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22). Again, we must look at Abraham when he offered up his son. The fruit of his absolute surrender was obedience. Surrender leads us to faith. When one surrenders his will for God's will, faith is then supplied. “Have this attitude in you that was in Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man He humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross. (Phillipians 2:5-8)

Absolute Surrender! Now, or later? One day every knee shall bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess Jesus as Lord to the Glory of the Father (Philippians 2:10, 11). Someone has once said, “We will all bow, it’s not a matter of if, its when”. We can surrender now, while the provisions for Grace, Forgiveness, and Power are available, or later, when the door is shut.

I pray that I will not see the 30 day trial of Absolute surrender like a diet plan, but rather as an absolute necessity for fellowship with our Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus asks me this question “Could you men not stay awake with me for one hour.” (Matthew 26:40).

Other Books to read: Holiness / Humility - both by Andrew Murray