Have you ever thought about winning by surrendering?
I know it sounds silly, but bear with me. Let’s face it, it’s hard to watch the news at night and see all the images of war going on around the world. And it is there every day. Or first President, George Washington, said, “My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” Sad to say, war has yet to be banished.
We are in a battle every day of or lives. There is one war that we can win by surrendering— the fight that we wage against sin and the rebellion of the human heart against God. Before our salvation, we were enemies of God. James 4:4 says, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
When we realize God is just and good—a God of righteousness and yet of mercy—and when we surrender our lives to Him, we’re filled with a peace that transcends human understanding; we have peace with God.
The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is our peace. If you are fighting against God and His marvelous grace, why not surrender your life to Him today. The Bible says, and I paraphrase. “Since then it is by faith that we are justified, let us grasp the fact that we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have confidently entered into this new relationship of grace, and here we take our stand” (Romans 5:1)
Surrender today and win the war!
- ALAN MURPHY
