Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
I got to thinking about that the other day because isn't that what's required of every
one of us? There's a passage in Romans chapter 12 right at the very beginning of that chapter
it talks about we need to have an unconditional surrender to God. It tells us there in Romans
12 we are to be a living sacrifice. We're to sacrifice our own selves to God. We're
to be living Godly ways. We're to be putting on the mind of Christ. We're to put ourselves,
our own sins aside and become true Christians living, thinking, existing in God's way of
life (Romans 12:1-2).
And the interesting thing about it, if we do that, when you think of an unconditional
surrender there's no guarantees, there's no terms, there's no conditions, and yet, with
God it is a little bit different. It is a little bit different. If you were to look
at what it says over in the book of Ephesians, in Ephesians 1:13, with the surrender that
we have to God there actually is a guarantee. Ephesians 1:13 it says, "In Him you trusted
after you have heard the word of the truth." And then it goes on saying, "You were sealed
with the holy spirit, who is the guarantee of the inheritance." So after our unconditional
surrender to God, God gives us a guarantee.
He gives us His holy spirit so that we can meet the terms of His conditions. Now it's
also interesting with Grant and that surrender that took place at Fort Donaldson. That's
when he became known as U.S. Grant. That was his initials, but the Washington newspapers
at the time turned it around and they said unconditional surrender for Grant. Now for
you and I, maybe that's what we should remember. Maybe our initials should be U.S. that we
have an unconditional surrender to God. And with His guarantee, with His spirit we can
fulfill that great calling we've been given.
That's BT Daily. We'll see you next time.