A life of absolute surrender has two sides — on the one side, absolute surrender to do the work that God wants you to do; on the other side, to let God work what He wants to do in you.
Give up yourself absolutely to the will of God. You know something of that will; not enough, far from all. But still, you know some. Say “Lord God, not a word upon my tongue but for Your glory, not a movement of my temper but for Your glory, not an affection of love or hate in my heart but for Your glory, and according to Your blessed will.”
God wants to bless you in a way even beyond what you expect. It is God who will enable you to carry out the surrender. He is waiting to help you do it. Come and say: “I give myself absolutely to You, God, to let You work in me to will and to do of Your good pleasure, as You have promised to do.” Only let your absolute surrender be one of simple, childlike, and unbounded trust.
God wants us to be separate from the world; we are called to come out from the world that hates God. You have been praying for blessing. But do remember there must first be absolute surrender. At every tea-table you see it. Why is tea poured into that cup? Because it is empty and given up for the tea. But put vinegar into it, and one cannot pour tea into it. Can God fill you, can God bless you if you are not absolutely surrendered to receive from Him?
Let us believe God has wonderful blessings for us, if we will but stand up for God and say, be it with a trembling will, yet with a believing heart: “O God, I am Yours and all that I have is Yours. Absolute surrender is what my soul yields to You.” As you bow before Him, just accept God’s teaching that in your flesh “there dwells no good thing,” and that nothing will help you except another life which must come in. You must deny self, and then Christ will come in and take possession of you.
As the Spirit reveals Christ Jesus to us, Christ comes to live in our hearts forever, and the self-life is cast out. Separation and death — separation from the world and death to self. Surely one ought to say: “Anything is good that brings me to separation and to death, for a life of full fellowship with God and Christ.”
Cast this self-life and flesh-life at the feet of Jesus. Then trust Him. Do not worry yourself with trying to understand all about it, but come in the living faith that Christ Jesus will come into you with the power of His death — and the power of His life; and then the Holy Spirit will bring the whole Christ – Christ crucified and risen and living in glory – into your heart.
[adapted from Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray]
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