Yesterday I wandered into my Dad’s office looking for a new book. Right away he suggested a little section that contained some older books, books on Christian Living by some great men of the faith. As my eyes scanned he told me that he was reading one right now and it was hitting him afresh, exactly in the areas he needed. A title caught my eye, and I pulled a book off the shelf just as he held up the book he was reading. Absolute Surrender. Interesting how the Lord works these little coincidences.

The title stood out to me because of this, it seems to be the word of the year for me, and in the first few pages I see that it truly is the book I need to read right now…

“Oh I come to you with a message, fearful and anxious one. God does not ask you to give the perfect surrender in your own strength, or by the power of your will; God is willing to work it in you. Do we not read:”It is God that worth in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure”? And that is what we should ask for- to go on our faces before God, until our hearts learn to believe that the everlasting God Himself will come in to turn out what is wrong, to conquer what is evil, and to work what is well-pleasing in His blessed sight. God Himself will work it in you.

God comes and offers to work this absolute surrender in you. All these searchings and hungerings and longing that are in your heart, I tell you they are the drawings of the divine magnet, Christ Jesus. H lived a life of absolute surrender, He has possession of you; He is living in your heart by His Holy Spirit. You have hindered and hindered Him terribly, but He desires to help you to get hold of Him entirely. And He comes and draws you now by His message and words. Will you not come and trust God to work in you that absolute surrender to Himself? Yes, blessed be God. He can do it, and He will do it. God not only claims it and works it, but God accepts it when we bring it to Him.”

-Andrew Murray