11/12/2024
When this year started, I received the word “surrender” as the aim for my walk with the Lord this year. For the first time, I realised I had been ‘following’ Christ in my mind all these years, but I had never truly surrendered all of me to Him. I was mostly doing my own thing while attaching a prayer and petition at the beginning and the end of my own plans and efforts.
This year of surrender was different. It has been a wild ride of wrestling, weeping and Isaac-like sacrifices on the way to yielding. Some things were easier to give God authority over than others. Some were so stubborn that I even doubted the possibility that I could ever surrender. But I never seized approaching the throne of mercy, and true to His word, God helped me in my many times of need. He never once gave up on me but graced and equipped me at every down turn.
Even now, I am not so bold to declare I am fully surrendered to God, but I am definitely more sold out to Christ than I ever been in my whole eternal life so far. Not by my own power, not by might but by the Spirit of the living God. God did it for me. Truly His power was made perfect in my weakness. So, mission accomplished? I believe so.
All I can say is thank you Abba, for helping me surrender to you. FINALLY!