Full Surrender!
Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant
of the Lord! Let it be to me according to
your word.”
Luke 1: 38
Marty Robinson was a tattooed, bearded punk rocker
in Australia who “came to the end of his tether” due
to alcohol
addiction.
Today he’s serving Christ with the Salvation Army as a
prison chaplain, and his ministry is changing lives
every
day. He surrenders himself to Christ daily by beginning
every day saying to Jesus, “Use me however you want.”
That’s essentially what Mary said when Gabriel told her
she would give birth to the Messiah. The J. B. Phillip's
rendering of Luke 1:38 says, “I belong to the Lord,
body
and soul…let it happen as you say.”
The world around us doesn’t grasp the idea of full surrender
to the will of
God, but only full surrender brings full victory.
God’s wisdom is greater than ours. His plans are better.
His guidance is perfect.
When the pathway seems hard or the task uncertain,
say, as Mary did, “I belong to the Lord, body and soul.
I am willing. Let it
be to me according to Your Word.”
"All to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him, in His presence
daily live."
Judson W. Van DeVenter
