(Excerpted from Cheryl Gnagey's Spiritual Healing: The Surrender That Brings Victory, Chapter 10)
"Bernard Shaw played the What If game shortly before he died. 'Mr. Shaw,' asked a reporter, 'if you could live your life over and be anybody you've known, or any person from history, who would you be?'
'I would choose,' replied Shaw, 'to be the man George Bernard Shaw could have been, but never was.'
Can't you hear the remorse in the voice of George Bernard Shaw? What was it that he regretted? His regret was in not living up to the full potential that dwelt within him. Can you relate to that? Have you lived up to your full potential as a child of God? Having looked at the topic of surrender in the previous chapter as the means of entering into the daily presence of God and walking in submission to Him by the Spirit, we now turn our attention to the vital role the Holy Spirit will play as we surrender our whole hearts to Him. When we learn to surrender every sin in our broken hearts, and allow Him to live out the holy life of Christ through us, we will begin to see the message of this chapter: There is great victory and power that lies just beyond our surrender. By that very power we can become in Christ all that He intend for us to be and live a live with no regrets for who we could have been."
As we crucify our flesh and its sin, we begin to die daily. And as we die, the Spirit is emboldened and released out of us to live through us a victorious and holy life. We no longer have to 'try' to be victorious and holy; we just become that by the power we are surrender to, the power that is living inside of us. That is good news for today! We can have that life right NOW!
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