Daily Devotional

Each month, daily devotional readings are provided from some of the great classics of the Christian faith. Our prayer is that the spiritual passion of these who have gone before us will ingite a deeper desire in each of us.

 

January's readings are taken from "Aboslute Surrender," by Andrew Murray. Click here to view a complete copy of this great classic. Click here to learn more about the life and ministry of Andrew Murray.

 

Scripture Reading: Psalm 40:8

God Expects Your Surrender


Yes, it has its foundation in the very nature of God God cannot do otherwise. Who
is God? He is the Fountain of life, the only Source of existence and power and goodness,
and throughout the universe there is nothing good but what God works, God has created
the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the flowers, and the trees, and the grass; and
are they not all absolutely surrendered to God? Do they not allow God to work in them
just what He pleases? When God clothes the lily with its beauty, is it not yielded up,
surrendered, given over to God as He works in it its beauty? And God’s redeemed children, oh, can you think that God can work His work if there is only half or a part of them
surrendered? God cannot do it. God is life, and love, and blessing, and power, and infinite
beauty, and God delights to communicate Himself to every child who is prepared to
receive Him; but ah! this one lack of absolute surrender is just the thing that hinders God.
And now He comes, and as God, He claims it.


You know in daily life what absolute surrender is. You know that everything has
to be given up to its special, definite object and service. I have a pen in my pocket, and
that pen is absolutely surrendered to the one work of writing, and that pen must be
absolutely surrendered to my hand if I am to write properly with it. If another holds it
partly, I cannot write properly. This coat is absolutely given up to me to, cover my body.
This building is entirely given up to religious services. And now, do you expect that in
your immortal being, in the divine nature that you have received by regeneration, God
can work His work, every day and every hour, unless you are entirely given up to Him?
God cannot. The Temple of Solomon was absolutely surrendered to God when it was
dedicated to Him. And every one of us is a temple of God, in which God will dwell and
work mightily on one condition — absolute surrender to Him. God claims it, God is worthy
of it, and without it God cannot work His blessed work in us..

God not only claims it, but God will work it Himself.

 

 





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