My Surrender To The Lord

This is my surrender to the Lord:
      
     "I stand before the Lord without any distractions. My mind is only focused upon him. Within my mind, I can see clearly his presence before me. There is no resistance within my mind to make that view hard to see. I lay down everything that I have and that I am at his feet. I throw away that which has kept me away from surrendering my life to him. Through the Holy Spirit and his words, I will listen to his voice and do as he says. Before his throne, I bow as his obedient servant. I will refuse the things that he rejects and love the things that he loves. I will walk the path that he wants me to walk. I will live for him until the end."
     In our surrender to God. We are showing him our love. Jesus tells us what is the great commandment in Matthew 22:37-38 "And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment." We are showing God our love when we surrender our heart, soul and mind to him. If we give him our love from our hearts, we will draw near to God and he will find us, meaning we will make a spiritual connection to him. The LORD said in Jeremiah 29:13 "You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart." Deuteronomy 4:29 "But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and all your soul." If we give to God our surrender of our heart, mind and soul, we will draw closer to him and find him. We will make a spiritual connection of our heart to his.
     In our surrender of our heart, mind and soul to God, we must follow Jesus and obey his words. Matthew 16:24-25 "Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." By denying ourselves and taking up our cross, we will be trying to live a spiritual life and not a fleshly one. Galatians 5:24 "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." This is our spiritual worship to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. Romans 12:1 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship."
     In our surrender to God, we want to be pleasing to him. We want to know if we are doing anything that he does not like and we want him to guide us in doing what is right. Psalm 139:23-24 "Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!" The apostle Paul was worried to if he was doing anything wrong that would disqualified him from receiving praise from God. He wanted to make sure he was practicing what he preached. 1 Corinthians 9:27 "But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified."
     Our surrender to God is more that just words, it is giving God our heart, mind and soul. With our mouth we will praise and thank him. We will openly declare him to be our God and with our heart we will love him. Our mind will be thinking about his words and how to put them to use in our life. Our body and soul will being doing the necessary work to support his church in spreading his Gospel to many others. Our commitment to God is with our whole being. We surrender to him wholly and completely. 

Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."