Surrender All

Lately, I've been completely obsessed with the song "I Surrender" by Hillsong. The lyrics make me question how much I actually depend on God.

"Here I am
Down on my knees again
Surrendering all
Surrendering all"

How often am I brought down to my knees? Am I truly surrendering all? Is there any part of me that I'm keeping for myself? That I don't give God?

God is my Father, my Lord, my Creator, my Counselor, my Friend. He cares about me. He hates sin because it separates us from him and when that happens we don't communicate. He treasures us!

The first part of Isaiah 46:16 says, "See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." 

One definition of engrave is: to fix deeply or permanently in the mind. 

Even before we were here on this earth, God had us in mind and he loved us. So much more than we could ever imagine. 

If all this is true then why would we ever think of not giving God everything we have? He owns it all anyways. As much as I don't want to admit it, I struggle a lot with putting my friends before God in my life. An example of this is how when I'd be having my quiet time, I'd be texting my friends and every time I'd see a text pop up on my screen, I'd drop my Bible onto my lap and read the text and reply. The past week or so, I've tried to change that. 

I think a lot of the time we have in our minds that we're just high schoolers, we have our whole life ahead of us. I mean we aren't going to just turn Amish and get rid of all distractions in our lives. So how can we really surrender all to Christ? We give our time. You may not think you have much free time, because I mean teenagers are pretty dang busy, but I guarantee that if you read a few verses from your Bible and praying in the morning and at night instead of checking Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, you will notice God in your life more. 

We go through our days, just waiting till we can get done and relax and sleep, but if you spend some time with God, He will renew every passion in your heart for him and you will find yourself so much more full of the Holy Spirit. If you give God your all, then He will give you His all. 

We need to watch ourselves so that we don't become blind to our sin. Maybe about 5 or 6 months ago..or longer..I said to myself, "You know I really don't have anything to change about myself.." HOW DANGEROUS IS THIS THOUGHT! (I just screamed that in my head at myself...like forreal though) If we think that there is nothing wrong with us, nothing to change, then we are not spiritually growing. If we are a Christian, then we should be constantly striving to be more like Christ. If we think that there's no life changing sin in our life, then we need to search more closely because there are probably several sins that we've just blinded ourselves to. 

"Like a mighty storm
Stir within my soul
Lord have Your way
Lord have Your way in me"


Lord, You alone deserve all of us, every little piece that you so delicately created. For you to mend our broken pieces and to mold us into something so much greater than we could ever imagine to be used for you in mighty ways, to bring bring glory to you alone. Open our eyes to everything that you want to show us and give us a yearning to know you more. Bring us to our knees. Break our hearts for what breaks yours. Let us be desperate for you.
In Jesus' Name, Amen