Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalms 37:4 NRSV Bible)
Surrender is essential. We are free moral agents. We can choose, but choose we must. If we want the healing of Christ, we must open ourselves to the Spirit of Christ. We must yield ourselves to the authority of Christ. Some of us want a nodding acquaintance with him. We want to be counted in his company, but at a distance. It cannot be done. Regardless of how hard or harsh it may sound, sooner or later we must confront our personal Gethsemane and pray either "My will" or "Thy will" be done.

As he came to the end of his distinguished ministry at City Temple in London, the great British Methodist preacher Leslie Weatherhead said: "I am to be asked shortly on a radio program to answer the question, 'What have you learned from life?' Well, I have learned a lot of things from life, but from my own failures, from the confidences of innumerable men and women, from the rough and tumble of forty-five years in the Christian ministry, and from my observations as a student of personal, national and international affairs, I will tell you the outstanding thing I have learned. It is this: Life will only work out one way, and that is God's way. He made it like that. Every other way has across it a barricade bearing a notice which says, 'No thoroughfare this way.'"

Only our Creator has the key that unlocks the doors to peace and serenity. Let's surrender fully to God through Jesus Christ.

Dear God, I surrender all to you today. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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