IMAGE TEXT: COME TO JESUS!
GET OUT OF DECEPTION!
There are a lot of people looking for the right things in the wrong places.
Everything that anyone lacks is in Christ.
When you discover that He can do all things and you can do nothing, you surrender.
Surrender is different from acceptance.
You accept what you can master and control. Yet you master and know only that to which you have surrendered.
Surrendering to God means recognizing that what you are, what you have and what you become and have, belong to Him and return to Him.
Whoever surrenders to God stops playing and fighting with Him; stop challenging Him. The surrendered person humbly surrenders to God, and understands that he does not need all arguments and all doubts answered. The surrendered is satisfied with the simplicity of faith.
Therefore, it can be seen that surrender is not for cowards or subservients, on the contrary, it is for the brave, fearless, daring. Strong people are capable of surrender. The weak run away from it.
Surrendering to God also does not mean giving up logical reasoning. God would not waste the mind He gave us!
Surrendering is not suppressing one's personality; God wants to utilize our unique personalities. Instead of diminishing one's personality, surrender enhances it.
C. S. Lewis observed, “The more we let God take control of us, the more authentic we become—for He made us. He invented all the different people you and I intended to be […] It is when I turn to Christ and surrender to his personality that, for the first time, I begin to have my own, real personality.”
When you heard and believed the word of truth, the gospel that saved you, you were sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of those who belong to God, to the praise of his glory .
Ephesians 1:13-14
¹ Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from this, namely, from your pleasures, which war in your members?
² You covet, and you have nothing; you kill, and you are envious, and you can achieve nothing; You fight and make war, and you have nothing, because you do not ask.
³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity against God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world constitutes himself an enemy of God.
⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain: The Spirit that dwells in us is jealous?
⁶ Rather, he gives greater grace. Therefore it says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
⁸ Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and, you of two minds, purify your hearts.
⁹ Feel your miseries, and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into weeping, and your joy into sorrow.
¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:1-10
