Here at training we heard a talk about surrender and I have just been thinking about how the concept of surrender relates to our lives as believers. The Christian life isn’t about giving God just enough of us to appease Him. God doesn’t need anything we could ever give Him – He’s GOD. However, He wants us – not just pieces of us, all of us. He doesn’t just want our morality or for us to simply follow the rules – He wants our hearts. When we give Him our hearts, we want nothing else, we live for nothing else, we search for nothing else but for Him alone. On this trip I desire for my teammates and I to just run hard after our loving father, to give Him all of us so we can experience more and more of Him. I want my desires to be not in the things of the world, whether “good” things or things of the flesh, but to be stripped away from anything and everything that is keeping me from experiencing all God has for me. Opening up our hearts to God is so important to for us to truly be in love with Him and be completely satisfied in Him. When He has our hearts, He can and will take us to places and experiences that we ourselves while trapped in our own flesh could not even possibly imagine or dream of.
This picture is a small piece of the awesome painting we completed as a team!
