True surrender is not doing what you think I want you to do.
An authentic white flag is the exposing of yourself. Surrender is the abandonment of all self-preservation in the presence of one more powerful than you. Surrender is, in essence, turning over your own life and will to someone else's hands.
Because when I surge ahead, living my life like I think God wants me to, I'm still living my own life.
When I obey His leading only when it is comfy or cool, I'm just fitting obedience into my life whenever I want to.
No. Surrender doesn't look like that. Surrender looks like turning in my old life in exchange for the new. Surrender means dying to what I was so that Christ's resurrection power can come to life in me.
Surrender is most definitely a kind of death. But what kind of a God would call His followers to present each moment as a waving white flag? A good God, that's who. Because my God - the God who calls me to daily surrender - has a better life to give me. I've learned that when I give up my life to Christ, He gives me His life in return.
When I surrender, it is no longer I who lives, but Christ in me.
And that's what a white flag is.
A humbling,
uncovering,
dying of myself
so that one more powerful than I can live.
