Febrauary 13

February 13- God never ceases to amaze me. In my devotions, I keep noticing a central theme of surrender. For almost 2 weeks it’s been constantly give it all to God. This morning, I read Acts 20 which says, “And now, behold I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await for me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Paul is going despite the evident dangers because God told him to. He counts his life as nothing. I remember Pastor Steve saying that it’s not what the future holds, but who holds the future. He has laid his life at the disposal of God’s will, no matter what that pertains.


A passage of Scripture that I’ve meant to memorize for a while now, but God has really put on my heart while I’ve been here is Philippians 3:7-14 says, “But whatever gain I had, I counted as a loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed I count everything as loss compared to the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes for the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith-that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may share in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

Give it all to God. None of it was mine anyway. I will press on, and no longer dwell on the past but run with endurance, pressing on.

In full and glad surrender
I give myself to Thee,
Thine utterly and only,

And evermore to be
But drop of grief can e’er repay the debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord, I give myself away,
Tis’ all that I can do

All for Jesus! All for Jesus!
All my being’s ransomed powers;
All my thoughts and words and doings;
All my days and all my house.
Let my hands perform His bidding;
Let my feet run in His ways;
Let mine eyes see Jesus only;
Let my lips speak forth His praise.

O Son of God who lov’st me,
I will be Thine alone,
And all I have and all I am
Shall henceforth be Thine own

Reign over me, Lord Jesus,
O make my heart Thy throne,
It SHALL be Thine, dear Saviour,
It SHALL be Thine alone.