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Check it out: Romans 12:1-2
I’ll be honest enough to say that surrender is not my favourite thing. Surrender means handing over all power and all authority to the other person. It’s saying, ‘I’m under your control. I’ll do whatever you say I should, you own me.’ That’s deep!
When I think of the word surrender, two pictures come to mind: the first is the picture of a man being arrested by a policeman, we have seen it a thousand times in the movies.The policeman calls out, ‘surrender’ and then the other guy raises his hands, falls on his knees and surrenders. The policeman walks up to him, roughly handcuffs and takes him away.
The other picture of surrender is very different. It’s the picture of a chubby-cheeked, cheery-faced one-year-old boy. He’s got orange stains all over his shirt. He’s walked in the rain all day and he’s fallen into every water pool in sight. He’s done it all – broken the glass cup, chewed on the remote control – and now all puppy dog-eyed with a big mischievous smile on his lovely one-year old face, he walks up to his father, raises his hands and he says in baby lingo ‘pick me up dada, pick me up dada’. With a big smile on his father’s face, he picks up his bundle of joy, not minding that he’s all covered up in mango juice and rain.
When I think of our heavenly Father and surrender, it’s refreshing to know the second picture fits the cut. God doesn’t ask us to surrender ourselves so he can roughly put us away. Instead, like the father of the little boy, God asks us to surrender so he can love us, care for us and perfect us.
Yours in love, MOI
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