{"id":5332,"date":"2011-09-13T04:52:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T12:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2011-09-13T05:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:33:24","slug":"after-surrender%e2%80%94-then-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"After Surrender\u2014 Then What?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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September\u00a013,\u00a02011<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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I have finished the work which You have given Me to do \u2014John 17:4<\/strong><\/div>\n
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True surrender is not simply surrender of our external life but surrender of our will\u2014 and once that is done, surrender is complete. The greatest crisis we ever face is the surrender of our will. Yet God never forces a person\u2019s will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. And once that battle has been fought, it never needs to be fought again.<\/p>\n

Surrender for Deliverance.<\/strong> \u201cCome to Me . . . and I will give you rest\u201d (Matthew 11:28<\/a>). It is only after we have begun to experience what salvation really means that we surrender our will to Jesus for rest. Whatever is causing us a sense of uncertainty is actually a call to our will\u2014 \u201cCome to Me.\u201d And it is a voluntary coming.<\/p>\n

Surrender for Devotion.<\/strong> \u201cIf anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself . . . \u201d (Matthew 16:24). The surrender here is of my self<\/em> to Jesus, with His rest at the heart of my being. He says, \u201cIf you want to be My disciple, you must give up your right to yourself to Me.\u201d And once this is done, the remainder of your life will exhibit nothing but the evidence of this surrender, and you never need to be concerned again with what the future may hold for you. Whatever your circumstances may be, Jesus is totally sufficient (see 2 Corinthians 12:9<\/a> and (Philippians 4:19<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Surrender for Death.<\/strong> \u201c. . . another will gird you . . .\u201d (John 21:18<\/a> ; also see John21:19<\/a>). Have you learned what it means to be girded for death? Beware of some surrender that you make to God in an ecstatic moment in your life, because you are apt to take it back again. True surrender is a matter of being \u201cunited together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death\u201d (Romans 6:5<\/a>) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him.<\/p>\n

And after you surrender\u2014 then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.<\/p>\n

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September 13, 2011<\/p>\n

Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n

Lord, it is not an easy road, the road to surrender.\u00a0 I am not certain that it is a road I would have chosen, if I had been given a choice. However, I am very grateful that You have allowed me to live in circumstances and time that have put me face to face with decisions to surrender my will and my ideas; and of what is good for me and mine. The song says it right; I have to go through the valleys in order to stand on the mountain of God.<\/p>\n

And God says\u2026\u201dSimply realize that if I gave My Son for you; I would not withhold any good thing from you\u2026ever. \u00a0And even though the roads are hard, I know that tears of growth are always replaced by tears of joy and peace. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September\u00a013,\u00a02011 I have finished the work which You have given Me to do \u2014John 17:4 True surrender is not simply surrender of our external life but surrender of our will\u2014 and once that is done, surrender is complete. The greatest crisis we ever face is the surrender of our will. Yet God never forces a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5335,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}