ABSOLUTE SURRENDER By Andrew Murray Part 2 – Absolute Surrender - God Expects Your Surrender

ABSOLUTE SURRENDER
By Andrew Murray

Part 2 – Absolute Surrender

God Expects Your Surrender -

Yes, it has its foundation in the very nature of God. God cannot do
otherwise. Who is God? He is the Fountain of life, the only Source of
existence and power and goodness, and throughout the universe there is
nothing good but what God works. God has created the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the flowers, and the trees, and the grass; and are
they not all absolutely surrendered to God? Do they not allow God to
work in them just what He pleases? When God clothes the lily with its
beauty, is it not yielded up, surrendered, given over to God as He
works in its beauty? And God's redeemed children, oh, can you think
that God can work His work if there is only half or a part of them
surrendered? God cannot do it. God is life, and love, and blessing, and
power, and infinite beauty, and God delights to communicate Himself to
every child who is prepared to receive Him; but ah! this one 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 pen in my pocket, and that pen is absolutely
surrendered to the one work of writing, and that pen must be absolutely
surrendered to my hand if I am to write properly with it. If another
holds it partly, I cannot write properly. This coat is absolutely given
up to me to cover my body. This building is entirely given up to
religious services. 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? God 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.