Quotes about Surrender

We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.

Your promotion, or lack of it, is in the hand of God. Your superiors are simply His agents to carry out His will.

The prayer of a Christian is not an attempt to force God's hand, but a humble acknowledgment of helplessness and dependence. When we are on our knees, we know that it is not we who control the world; it is not in our power, therefore, to supply our needs by our own independent efforts; every good thing that we desire for ourselves and for others must be sought from God, and will come, if it comes at all, as a gift from His hands.3

Regardless of the nature of the circumstances, we must learn to trust God if we would glorify God in them.

So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.

so God's honor is to take precedence over our feelings. We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur. As we seek God's glory, we may be sure that He has purposed our good and that He will not be frustrated in fulfilling that purpose.

In fact, there is no such thing as grudging obedience. For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.

The main thing is our attitude. We can pray earnestly to God for relief and still be submissive to Him regarding the outcome.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.

When we discover we are weak in ourselves, we find we are strong in Christ.

We might agree with what the Bible says about a certain sin, "and even make a commitment of sorts to put it out of our lives…..We would like to be rid of that sin, and even pray to God to take it away, but are we willing to say no to it?