Surrender (4)

As we complete step work we answer lots of questions about what needs surrendering, what barriers keep us from surrendering, and what surrender looks like for each of us.   It is wise to get further input from counselors and other persons who have walked the path we are now on and have had victory over the darkness.  What really matters to our recovery is the fact that we have submitted to God and said to Him, “I surrender all – all that I have been, all that I am, and all that I hope to be.  I surrender it all to you.”  He will then lead us from the darkness we have been in and bring us into the light of His glorious presence.  He is seeking to work on behalf of those whose minds are fixed on Him.

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete. (2 Corinthians 10:4-6 NIV)

God wants to touch us and make us whole. Jesus took all our sickness, all our sin, all our suffering to the cross, and died in our place.  Because of what He accomplished on the cross for all humans, Jesus is seated at the right hand of God interceding for us, even when we are still sinning. The way out of our sin and suffering is by surrendering our will and our life to Him. When we surrender our old ways of believing and behaving and accept all that Jesus has done for us, God forgives the sins of our past and we are born again to new life in Him.


God starts a re-education process in our minds so we can finally come to know and believe truth.  He comes to live in us by His Spirit, who gives us power to help us obey Him, not on the terms we dictate, but on His terms.  Jesus, through His death and resurrection opened a new way of living in surrendered relationship with God, our creator.

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV)

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