James 4:7 says “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

What does a Surrendered Life look like? It’s relinquishing control, rights, power, direction, all the things. you do and say. It’s totally reassigning your life over to His hands, to do with you as He pleases. Jesus Himself lived a Surrendered Life: “I come down from Heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me.” (John 6:38)

The call to surrender/submit, to Jesus is step one in our sanctification. To do this is to voluntarily put yourself under Jesus for His leading in your life. It is a step of humility, to admit that I cannot save myself, or change myself, into the person Jesus wants me to be without Him.

Surrendering helps us let go of expectations so that when things don’t go as planned or expected there is no disappointment; instead there is hope in knowing that everything happens for a reason and has its own timing.

I surrender to you Jesus my whole self, my heart, my mind, my memory, my imagination, my will, my emotions, my passion, my body, my sexuality, my desire for human approval.

Surrendering your life to Jesus Christ of Nazareth is a Life Insurance Policy. Deny yourself daily, pick up your cross, and follow Jesus.