Today’s devotional: becoming a living sacrifice
In a devotional today at Words of Hope, Jessica Heikoop asks if Christians are truly “surrendering all” to Jesus. Christians often talk, sing, and pray about turning over their lives to God, but have you ever considered just what it means to completely surrender your life to Him? Consider what true “surrender” means:
This encompasses every aspect of our lives. It is rendering to God all that we are and all that we have. True surrender doesn’t just pick and choose those parts of ourselves that we feel like giving him. He wants all of us, not just a portion of our lives, not a small fragment of our time, not merely a fraction of our possessions.
Selective surrender isn’t real surrender. If you want to be a living sacrifice, you can’t say, “Lord, you can have my heart but not my head, my voice but not my hands and feet.” You can only say, “Lord, I surrender all.”
Read the full devotional at Words of Hope.
Have you devoted all of your life (not just your Sundays) to God? How might your life be different if you did?
amen
This is a significant and very timely topic, especially since I spent the entire first week of 2010 in a spiritual retreat and was just now considering my resolutions for the New Year. Two mental pictures come to mind: 1) our enemy seems to know we are destined to reign; and moves ahead of us to get us sidetracked and to forfeit our supreme calling in Christ Jesus. By pressuring us (as in my case) with numerous business propositions that are/or may be legitimate, useful and productive in their own right, yet not necessarily meant by the Lord for us. 2) The other picture comes from the 400 years of slavery endured by the Hebrew children, descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It seems that 400 years should have been sufficient for them to understand the concept of lordship. The Egyptians taught them obedience and sacrifice by the force of cruel taskmasters. Whereas, their Deliverer offered them a better deal that should not have been hard to accept (at least not from our comfortable perspective some 3,500 years later). Today, it seem that we need a combination of experience, revelation and understanding in addition to the written record in order to grasp the true meaning, the essence, the joy, the rewards and the significance of SURRENDER. Imagine, even our vocabulary is devoid of content… the words do not mean to us what it meant to those who suffered, bled and died simply to be loyal the man Christ Jesus.
Milton
If you truly want to give your all to god then you must give to your broken bothers and sisters, Give Life means: To pour life into the bodys of others, That’s truly giving your all!