This song has been one of my favorites so far. Please listen before reading on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WPbs7N-E0Q Surrendering my crowns at the feet of the King who surrendered everything. As I began journaling this morning I was reminded of how many times I have wanted to control every aspect of my life. This song pricked my heart in that Jesus surrendered it all. That I must surrender all. Who am I to think that I should be controlling my life? That I should have the power to make those decisions; that my life should be lived according to my wants and desires? He was (is) perfect. He was (is) sinless. He lived a servant life. He could have come into this world on a throne but instead he was born in a manger. There is no greater call than giving you my all. I lay it all down. I am overwhelmingly thankful that Jesus obeyed the call of the Father to be the sufficient sacrifice in my place. There is no other response to the free gift of salvation but to surrender it all. “It is only after we have begun to experience what salvation really means that we surrender our will to Jesus to rest” (My Utmost for His Highest, September, 13). You can have it all Lord, every part of my world. When I first heard this song (recently) I was excited to lay it all down at the feet of Jesus because he knows what is the best. He knows me better than I know myself. He knows the full spectrum of time. He knows my every need. Surrendering all makes the most sense. Oh the joy I have found, surrendering my crowns. However, I have not always felt this way. I have been mad and upset at the Lord but he has always made my paths straight regardless of the struggles and hard times I have gone through. Oh the peace that comes when I’m broken and undone. Surrendering may seem terrible and hard but, it is freeing. To be at a place of realization that I do not have control and giving it all to Jesus who does have control gives me unexplainable peace. Because of your unfailing grace, I can lift my voice and say; You can have it all Lord. Over the course of the years that I have personally known the Lord I have witnessed his comfort, love, reliability. It has been a process of constant, daily surrender to his will. He has opened doors I never thought I could walk through, showed me things I needed to hear in that very moment, and so much more. His grace is unfailing, his mercies are new every morning, he loves us with a perfect and unconditional love. We cannot even comprehend it but it is true. We must believe his promises in order for us to live as he intended us to do. “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Romans 6:5, 7-11 If we accept what Jesus did on the cross and turn away from our wicked, sinful ways we can live with Christ. We can live freely because our debt (sin) has been paid for in full. Yes, we will still mess up and sin but Jesus forgives us regardless of what we have done. If we identify and accept the free gift we will be able to meet Jesus one day. So we must live our life for God, as Jesus did. “True surrender is a matter of being united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him.. Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God” (My Utmost for His Highest September 13). If more of our goals were to be unified with Christ 100% of the time, imagine how beautiful this world would be. This requires action. A daily surrender to God’s will, disregarding our own. A willingness to obey what God has for us each day. A devotion to spread the gospel. I believe if we take these actions daily His Kingdom will come and his Will will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Take this life and breathe on, this heart that is now yours.
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Jennifer Burger
9/12/2016 01:27:55 pm
This is well written and more importantly it is the heart of being a disciple of Jesus: Full surrender. It's SO encouraging to me (and I know to your parents!) that you get this at your age. For me SURRENDERING ALL feels like a new lesson over and over again. There is always something else, something more to surrender. Things tangible and intangible. I agree that He gives Freedom and so much more as we continue to surrender. Thanks for blessing us with this post. 💓
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