Saturday, August 22, 1998
Saturday, August 22, 1998
Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
(Psalms 37:4
NRSV)
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.
Prayer: Dear God, I surrender all to you today. Amen.
Ronald Newhouse, Texas, USA