HAVE WE SURRENDERED EVERYTHING

“So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.”

Luke 14:33 KJV

Judson W. Van DeVenter wrote one of my favorite hymns “I Surrender All”.  I wonder if we have done what we sing in this hymn?  “All to Jesus, I surrender; All to Him I freely give; I will ever love and trust Him, In His presence daily live.”  Have we surrendered everything?

Have we put Jesus first in our heart and all we do?  When Jesus allowed them to crucify Him for our sins, He earned the right to have first place in our heart.  Jesus should come before our spouse, before our children, before our friends and before everything.

Jesus willingly left His Father, His home and all that He had to come to earth and die on the cross for our sins.  Are we willing to shut off the television, get out of our comfort zone and serve Him?  In some homes, the television is turned on in the morning and is not turned off until bedtime.

Television has caused a lot of problems in our homes.  A husband and wife got so angry about who had control of the remote control for the television that they didn’t speak to each other for a week.  How it must hurt Jesus and break His heart when we put things ahead of Him.

Are you serving Jesus?  If not, why aren’t you serving Him?  He is calling all of us to serve Him.  “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me” (Isaiah 6:8),  May God help us to serve Him with all of our heart.

Joanne Lowe

January 1, 2019