Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last. –Luke 23:46, NIV
Oye, surrender is more than raising hands. Or at least declaring to raise them.
Aye, it’s one of the most (nominally) tough and awkward things to write about. It involves experience to declare with one’s lips (or computer screens, whichever comes first) who will we serve. As for this house, I know I serve the Lord-but for my tutela, they will serve the Lord soon…(but that’s for another day).
Sometimes, I think that surrender is saying, “God, do whatever You want with me…Do what You please”, and switch to listen Christian music all day long. (Could be, could be…) So little do I understand God if I go this way, because that’s the surrender we mostly see on YouTube and Tangle and GodTube videos. I mean, anyone can utter those words like the next guy, but God really wants them to be made heard in our LIVES.
What Jesus said on the cross (I feel like I’m singing a worship song) was true. Even when He was agonizing over His people, even when He was getting lashed and flagellated and booed by His own, even that…that didn’t stop His love from overflowing. Acho, that just made Him eager to die for us! That made Him eager to present Himself to the father as the Ultimate Surrender –the Ultimate of Ultimates- that this world has ever had! He never wanted to intrude our hearts, but to let Him intrude our hearts!
And to utter those words in Spirit and Truth are so powerful. We’re not the rulers of our own lives, nor are we the rulers of this world –even though God called us to take care of it.
There is a generation who loves God, a generation who craves for more. So let us say,“Father, make me willing to give You our everything, what we love and don’t love, what You want and don’t want, EVERYTHING… like You did.” And that will make us closer to God.
For now, I have to deal with some work, yet I hope this refreshes your hearts. And leave me be, struggling with my internet.
Blessings from Puerto Rico, and your cristino preferido,
José E.