For Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that

humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 14: 11

Not surrendering to the Almighty is basically exalting yourself above him and what he has for you. It is showing him outright that you don’t believe in him, don’t believe that he can take care of you. The stakes are too high for you to invest in that way.

Instead, you would rather stay in a “safe” area. You would rather serve him in the places that are easy and that you rather enjoy doing.

Living out a life of surrender is a process. It takes a lot of cutting to get to the place where our flesh has died out and we are totally surrendered to him. Many times we have to be convinced to finally give up the things that we hold dear to our hearts. The only safe place for those things to be are in his hands anyways. Even though I have been a Christian my whole life, I am still seeking to reach that place of “complete surrender.”

God, help me to give you the areas that you are further trying to love me in. Help me not to close the doors on your loving embrace but instead to open them and surrender all to the one they belong to.