Full Surrender--The Act Of Denying Yourself Daily

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(Excerpt from Cheryl Gnagey's Spiritual Healing:  The Surrender That Brings Victory, Chapter 9)

"So, what does it mean to fully surrender?  I believe it refers to a point in time when we become serious about our relationship with God and clearly understand the requirements of God for all believers.  It doesn't mean that all of our sin will be magically removed from our sinful flesh, but it does mean that we are ready to give God the control of our life in such a way that we allow Him to systematically, and by spiritual surgery, remove those things that cause us to stumble and fall.

Literally, to 'be transformed' [as seen in Romans 12:2] means 'to change by means of an invisible process which begins during our life on earth.'  Interesting, isn't it?  We are not to be conformed to the world, but instead we are to be constantly changing into the likeness of Christ.  This is surrender, and it is the spiritual service of worship that comes from the sacrificing of our flesh on the altar of death.  This surrender leads us to sanctification [being made holy].  Like Abraham, we are to worship God by loving Him enough to obey what He desires.  Oswald Chambers says it this way:

Sin belongs to hell and the devil . . . It is not a question of giving up sin, but of giving up my right to myself, my nature independence and self-assertiveness, and this is where the battle has to be fought . . . To discern that natural virtues antagonize surrender to God, is to bring our souls into the centre of its greatest battle . . . It is going to cost the natural in you everything, not something.  Jesus said, 'If any man will be My disciple, let him deny himself' . . . Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence . . . If we do not resolutely sacrifice the natural, the supernatural can never become natural in us."

Are you willing to pay the price of full surrender to Christ and His purposes for you?  Then you are going to become intimately acquainted with daily denial of your own purposes.  This is death to your flesh.  This is full surrender to God.  Our surrender is our resolute sacrifice of our flesh, so that the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit can flow naturally out of us.  This is the surrender that brings victory!