From the very first moment we surrender our heart to God, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in ours. We are committing the rest of our lives and our whole heart to our Lord and Savior.

What does it mean to surrender our whole heart to God? The definition of surrender is when a believer gives up their will and submits their thoughts, ideas, and actions to God. That means we give full control of our lives over to God for the rest of our lives. I think that we can sometimes forget what a lifelong, life changing commitment we have made. We want to take back certain parts and only give God some control. We sometimes miss the whole point.

Surrendering our whole heart to God means to give Him EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING! Of course the first thing when we surrender is to admit to Jesus that we have sinned against Him, ask for forgiveness and turn away from our old life.

With that comes everything else we must give Him all the good in our hearts and also the bad!!! This includes our talents or calling, service, joy, happiness, love, faith, compassion, our wants and desires, our thoughts, our actions, our sins, anger, bitterness, rejection, fear, jealousy, pain, anxieties, grief, control and the list goes on and on. It’s like I said everything!!!!!

We can just lay them all, good and bad, at the feet of Jesus! Then we get to experience the love of God so much more clearly! We can actually rest and have peace because we have no control, but HE does. We have access to His guidance, wisdom, and His will for our lives. His ways are so much higher and His will so much more pleasing and perfect than we can ever imagine or think!

I imagine we all have something we need to let go of and let God be God! My prayer is for God to give each of us a clear vision of what we may not want to fully surrender to Him and that we have the hearts and minds to hear Him!!

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:8-9