“Surrender to God! Resist the devil, and he will run from you.” James 4:7 I have quoted this scripture to myself, maybe thousands (if not more) of times over the years. Many more times than that to people in counseling sessions. The rest of the paragraph beyond says: “Come near to God, He will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can’t make up your mind.” James 4:8
It has been my experience that when people are having trouble making up their minds, they are usually fighting against the will of God. In their hearts they know, even the more immature of heart, know what they are supposed to do. Their flesh fights against the Spirit, the battle ensues. Even Jesus experienced this very real struggle in Gethsemane. He was so troubled that He sweat blood. Where He agonized before the cross. Matthew 26:41reads: “Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Jesus had been teaching His disciples about the Kingdom of God and all that is yet to come before this hour, yet the weight of this hour before they were to come to get Him, and He would surrender His will to the Father’s will; was the most difficult of all up to this point. He made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us in the world. Though He fully knew what was expected of Him by the Father, still, His flesh was weak. He made Himself a living sacrifice for us.
Romans 12:1-2 reads: “Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That’s the most sensible way to serve God. Don’t be like the people of this world but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to Him.”
God wants you to do His will. He may birth it in your heart at a younger age but you may struggle in the flesh to obey Him. I find that without surrender, as the scripture says, you will not know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to Him.
Surrender to Him, now. He develops your path before you when you are in complete surrender to his will.
If you have never asked Jesus into to your heart, do not waste another minute, do it now! He made the ultimate sacrifice for you. He died for you, took on all your sins, ask Him to forgive you! He took on all your pain, sickness and oppression upon Himself. He rose from death, and lives eternally so that you may have the ability to do the same one day! Ask His Holy Spirit to fill you with power, and to lead and guide you through your life, and by His word.
Surrender to Him today!