Spiritual Fitness – The Purpose of Surrender
I must admit. From time to time I also struggle with embracing what it means to totally surrender to God. Isn’t it somewhat natural to wonder, to speculate and to ask questions about its meaning during our journey of faith? I think so.
To surrender does not mean that you’re to become less intellectual or to voluntarily squander your talents or to give away all your hard earned money or to do anything impulsive of trying to become nothing, such as what I’ve just mentioned. As much, surrendering is not the process of waving the white flag to signify your resignation about living.
Sure it’s difficult to surrender when you’re vulnerable, weak, disheartened and quite frankly, there’s nothing left in the tank for you to even think about trusting anyone or anything else. Nonetheless, you’re not required to trust in yourself or others before fully surrendering to God.
Take Jesus for instance, the sole basis of faith. In order to discover the entirety of His own true self, He completely surrendered to God through perhaps the most human act ever, dying gruesomely by crucifixion. This acceptance of surrender allowed Jesus to experience the fullness of human life, even in the midst of unspeakable suffering.
The human truth is that we complicate what it means to surrender to God. We’re not called to become perfect before giving our lives to Him. Instead, the opposite occurs. We’re called by God to give Him all of our brokenness and sin. This is the beauty about surrender. As a result, the process of surrendering cleanses and transforms us from being complacently useless to becoming actively recoverable.
You’re not left doing nothing with your life just because you’ve surrendered. In fact, you’re given more responsibility to do what God’s authorized you to do by His Spirit.
Inevitably, the purpose of surrendering to God empowers you to discover the totality of who you are, as well as finding out the essential truth about the rewarding mysteries of life.
Keep me on your favorites about spiritual fitness. You can begin this exciting journey of transformation regardless if you’re living with chronic pain or if you’re struggling against horrendous obstacles.
