Yesterday, I made a total surrender to God. I surrendered my entire body and my entire mind to Him. I thought about Jesus’ death on the cross and decided that, if in my service to Him, death ever becomes my fate, I cannot do anything but willingly accept this. If I serve a loving God who gave His life for me, I cannot hold back my life from Him.
I reminisced on my life and realized and reaffirmed to myself that the most valuable prize that I have ever had is the presence and leadership of God in my life. I have, on many occasions, experienced God’s miraculous interventions in my life, and I know that He is real and that He can do things in and for me that I could never do in and for myself.
After I had made this deep surrender, I had a peace that seemed almost wrong. I was not afraid of death. I had definite purpose and meaning in my life, and I felt that I was merely God’s vessel: a vessel whose purpose is to live to bless others. I realized that I was happy to live and that I had no anger toward God at the thought of my life ending.
I have come to terms with the fact that this sense of peace is supernatural. I wavered a bit and worried a bit after making this surrender, but I’ve made the surrender again, and I can confidently state that I am God’s earthen vessel and that my purpose in life is to live to bless others.
It’s amazing how when you stop fighting, you have peace. I have no malice or unforgiveness towards anyone. My life is in God’s hands. I’ll go anywhere that He wants me to go and I’ll stay anywhere that He wants me to stay. Reproach, persecution, poverty, and anything else are not the worst things that could happen to me: the worse thing that could happen to me is to be outside of God’s will and to be living a life apart from Him.
This is a miracle: a miracle for me to be able to say these things. I used to be a willful sinner, a person who continually thirsted after sin. I was self-centered and I lived to gratify myself. I am a naturally anxious person who very much wants to protect myself. To be able to love God as much as I do: to be able to live for others and to be willing to die for others is nothing short of a miracle. Thank you, Jesus!
If you want to join me in having this experience, you can! The peace of God is for everyone.
“O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.” Psalm 34:8 (KJV)
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” Isaiah 26:3 (KJV)
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Psalm 14:27 (KJV)
“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.” Colossians 3:14-15 (KJV)
God is good. ❤ “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever.” Psalm 40:8 (KJV)
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