My Journey 9/1 - 9/2/2010

God's insight to me:

Two wonderful devotionals to start the month of September. Both of these devotionals speak of the same thing, "surrender". The question for most is how and when do we do this. In the first devotional it speaks of God bringing us into a place of suffering, sickness and pain. I truly do not believe He gives that to us, but allows us into it so He can bring us out to bring Him the glory. Many people when going through a crisis are ready to surrender all. I also believe many, many people miss out of His working in their lives because they can not, our will not, submit to Christ as He submitted His life for us. Now if you read A. B. Simpson's second devotional I pray this sentence touches your heart; "give Him in all His fullness to your heart if you will but open your heart and give Him right of way and full ownership and possession." That is "surrendering all to Him".

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me

Surrender To Him

Oh give to the Lord what He seeks,
surrender to Him what is His.
He cannot work through our lives,
until we willingly and truly do this.

We must admit to ourselves,
that we are weak and He is the Way.
We must surrender to Him all we are,
so that He can truly live in us today.

We can’t hold back a single thing,
we must see the Truth in His Word.
We must surrender to Him our total being,
so through us His Gospel can be shared.

See, He was the first to surrender all for us,
so that the Life with Him will always be.
Surrender to Him our earthly lives,
as on the Cross He did for you and me.

E. P. Shagott
9/2/2010

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott

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9/1
From Days of Heaven Upon Earth
A devotional by A. B. Simpson

"Afterward that which is spiritual" (I. Cor. xv. 46).

God has often to bring us not only into the place of suffering, and the bed of sickness and pain, but also into the place where our righteousness breaks down and our character falls to pieces, in order to humble us in the dust and show us the need of entire crucifixion to all our natural life.

Then, at the feet of Jesus we are ready to receive Him, to abide in Him and depend upon Him alone, and draw all our life and strength each moment from Him, our Living Head.

It was thus that Peter was saved by his very fall, and had to die to Peter that he might live more perfectly to Christ.

Have we thus died, and have we thus renounced the strength of our own self-confidence?

We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His

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9/2

From Days of Heaven Upon Earth
A devotional by A. B. Simpson

"Who hath despised the day of small things" (Zech. iv. 10).

The oak comes out of the acorn, the eagle out of that little egg in the nest, the harvest comes out of the seed; and so the glory of the coming age is all coming out of the Christ life now, even as the majesty of His kingdom was all wrapped up that night in the babe of Bethlehem.

Oh, let us take Him for all our life. Let us be united to His person and His risen body. Let us know what it is to say, "The Lord is for the body and the body is for the Lord"! We are members of His body and His flesh and His bones.

He that gave that little infant, His own blessed babe and His only begotten Son, on that dark winter night to the arms of a cruel and ungrateful world, will not refuse to give Him in all His fulness to your heart if you will but open your heart and give Him right of way and full ownership and possession.

Then shall you know in your measure His quickening life, even in this earthly life, and by-and-by your hope shall reach its full fruition when you shall sit with Him on His throne with every fiber of your immortal being even as He.