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“Surrendering” to a sworn enemy is a horrible thing. It is always forced, always hated. At best, it means confinement, imprisonment, the complete curtailing of our highest capacities and hopes. At worst, it means unspeakable cruelty and death. It requires hands up in a defenseless posture of “giving up”—knowing we are sacrificing so much we love. But in the lexicon of an all-loving God, surrender is not about “giving up” anything ultimately, except our selfishly small and self-directed life. Surrender is to stop playing ‘god’, it is “giving over” ourselves in trust to the true God who wants only our best—eternally. When we respond to the God who “first loved us” in surrender the outcome is always the healing and expanding of all that is good within us. We’ll apply this to Jesus’ call in this message.