Quotes about Surrender

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?

One of the speaker's main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God's, and that the tension between them sets up stress.

His agenda for our lives that God will guard, protect, and advance. We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

Just as we should learn to stop asking why, or searching for rational explanations, or seeking to discover what "good" there is in our own adversities, so we must also learn to quiet our hearts in regard to God's government of the universe.