In the name of Almighty Power
Ramadan: Absolute surrender to God
We have heard it before, but we need to hear it very definitely—the condition of God's blessing is absolute surrender of all into His hands. If our hearts are willing for that, there is no end to what God will do for us and to the blessing He will forgive.
Are you ready to surrender?
God knows there are many of hearts who want it, and there are many more who long to say it but hardly dare to do so. And there are hearts who have said it, but who have yet miserably failed, and who feel themselves condemned because they did not find the secret of the power to live that life.
Surrender has its foundation in the very nature of God—the Creator of life, the only Source of existence and power and goodness. God has created the sun, the moon, the stars, the flowers, the trees and the grass.
Are they not all absolutely surrendered to Him? Do they not allow God to work in them just what He pleases?
God is life, love, blessing, power, and infinite beauty, and God delights in communicating Himself to everyone who is prepared to receive Him. But, this 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 key in my pocket, and that key is absolutely surrendered to the one work of opening a locker. It must be absolutely surrendered to my hand if I am to open that locker properly with it. If another holds it partly, I cannot open that locker properly.
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? He 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.
I am sure there many hearts that are saying: "Absolute surrender requires such a price! I have passed through so much trial and suffering already, and there is still so much of the self-life remaining. I dare not face giving it up entirely because I know it will cause even more trouble and agony."
What a shame that God's human have such cruel thoughts of Him! Here is a message to those who are fearful and anxious: God does not ask you to give the perfect surrender in your own strength, or by the power of your will; God is willing to work it in you
And that is what we should seek—to go on our faces before God, until our hearts learn to believe that the everlasting God Himself will come in to turn out what is wrong. He will conquer what is evil and work what is well-pleasing in His sight.
God Himself will work it in us.
Prepared and written by: Traveler Takesh
Tehran, June 20, 2014