Raising the white flag ...surrender.
The imagery brings up the idea of defeat, giving up, even weaknesses and failure.
📖 Surrender to God! Resist the devil, and he will run from you. James 4:7 CEV
Weakness it is NOT!
We are called to surrender, called to give up all to follow Him
📖 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. Luke 9:23-24
It is what He did
He surrendered all to His Father
📖 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” Luke 22:42
everything; His dignity, His position, His life
📖 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Philippians 2:7-8
being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Philippians 2:7-8
If there is no surrender then we are an enemy of God!
📖 Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.” James 4:5-6
surrender = Humility = freedom
📖 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 4:10
The only way to live our lives is to live a life of surrender, to Him and to all those around us. To live a life of freedom we need to follow His example and live a Surrendered Life!
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📖 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:1-11 ❤amen!
GOD MOMENT: The idea for this blog came to me a couple weeks ago, I began jotting notes down last week. As I was preparing worship songs for this past Sunday....I "came across" this song!!
AMAZING how God is in the details!
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