Word for Today, Fw: My Utmost For His Highest : "After Surrender - What?"
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
As some of you know, I subscribe to several mailing lists that contain daily devotional messages. In the past, I used to share a great number of them with you. I have hoped that many of you would develop your own methods of daily Bible reading and study, making sending these messages on a daily basis not quite as vital in importance. Still, even the Bible itself talks about "Bringing to remembrance" and reminding, which is something that the apostle Paul, in particular, was very good at - and we see that in his letters.
We have been studying the letters of Paul to Timothy during our Wednesday evening church services, so this fact was impressed upon me. So even though my present circumstances do not lend themselves to consistently sending out messages every single day, from time to time, I will put on a blitz of sorts and share one or two messages, which you can choose to review at your own leisure. My prayer has been for a long time, and continues to this day, that this Word for Today forum would be a help to encourage people to read the Bible.
The 1Corinthians7 mailing list, the primary recipient of these messages, was created to help people to strengthen their marriages. I can think of no better way to do that than to be personally grounded in the Word of God and to apply the principles of the Bible to every day living. I pray that these messages help to achieve that goal.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:30:01 -0500
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Subject: My Utmost For His Highest : "After Surrender - What?"
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September 13, 2008
AFTER SURRENDER - WHAT?
I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.
John 17:4
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+17:4&sr=1
Surrender is not the surrender of the external life, but of the will;
when that is done, all is done. There are very few crises in life;
the great crisis is the surrender of the will. God never crushes a
man's will into surrender, He never beseeches him, He waits until the
man yields up his will to Him. That battle never needs to be
re-fought.
Surrender for Deliverance. "Come unto Me and I will give you rest."
It is after we have begun to experience what salvation means that we
surrender our wills to Jesus for rest. Whatever is perplexing heart
or mind is a call to the will - "Come unto Me." It is a voluntary
coming.
Surrender for Devotion. "If any man will come after Me, let him deny
himself." The surrender here is of my self to Jesus, my self with His
rest at the heart of it. "If you would be My disciple, give up your
right to yourself to Me." Then the remainder of the life is nothing
but the manifestation of this surrender. When once the surrender has
taken place we never need "suppose" anything. We do not need to care
what our circumstances are, Jesus is amply sufficient.
Surrender for Death. John 21:18-19. ". . . another shall gird thee."
Have you learned what it means to be bound for death? Beware of a
surrender which you make to God in an ecstasy; you are apt to take it
back again. It is a question of being united with Jesus in His death
until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him.
After surrender - what? The whole of the life after surrender is an
aspiration for unbroken communion with God.
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