we sing songs like i surrender all but do we really understand the meaning of the word Surrender. i found an article on the meaning of surrender and here it is:
Surrender means losing the right to handle yourself
To surrender means to give everything up to the Lord. Lay it all down. Lose the right over yourself, both the "bad" self and the "good" self. Surrender means you lose your right to handle yourself on your own. In the middle of everything, lose and forfeit your rights to the Lord. Do not move. Freeze right where you are. Do not do anything. Surrender yourself just the way you are. By all means, do not fix yourself. Do not try in yourself to get it together. If you get it together, that means you are the savior. Do not try to work what is dead back up into life, like trying to massage a heart that has stopped beating. You cannot squeeze life out of the region of death inside of you. Life must come from the outside. In resurrection, Christ as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. Life originates from Him. So we must let Christ inject life into our dead condition. We must receive the life. We must allow resurrection life to give life to our mortal bodies (Rom. 8:11).
Surrendering is not merely a once-and-for-all experience. It is continuous, day by day. When our soul-life is struggling to live and preserve itself, that is a call to a deeper fellowship with the Lord. It means more opening to Him, more interacting with Him in the Spirit. Surrendering is not an ascetic practice of the self denying the self.
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