Needless to say, the question provoked me to think. Personally after much thought and discussion with a trusted friend, it would mean that my past, whether good or bad, has no grip on my life anymore. It does not hold me back because of guilt, or because of those sweet memories I had about things I did before. And it gives me the freedom to know God in a fuller manner, and live in the now. Even if I did certain things wrongly in the past, it does not stop me from trying anew the same things over again.
Surrender = to yield/to hand something over (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary). Surrendering my past also means surrendering who I am today (because of my heritage) to God and allowing Christ to be more centred in my being. God expects every part of me to be surrendered to Him. What a high calling. And to think that Paul considered his heritage rubbish compared to knowing Christ, too hard to say that at this stage of my life. It is with intense passion and love for Christ that Paul would say such things.
Philippians 3:4-11
If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.
7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
May we all grow to love Christ so much that surrendering our past becomes easy and uncomplicated as it should be.
just one life,
gracey
3 comments:
it is quite difficult to surrender your past if u dont know where are u heading but i know god have a plan for us and be faithfull in seeking him he will show the way amen
I think most of us do not know or are unsure of the direction we're heading to. But that doesn't mean we can't surrender our past to God. Hey, we need to surrender our future too, so there's really no fuss whether we know where we're going or not. The point is, surrender.And if we trust God enough, it'll be easy.
thank you for your true advise and spritual words amen i really thank god for u iam trying to spending time with god it may be very hard couse still learning not like everyone so spritual in christiany and is for me it sometime may it hard but i will try my best and surrender my futher to lord iam actually unsure where i will be heading and what is my desterniny so couse my studies is finishing soon u know how worse my situation is and countineu to pray for clear dirrection and faithfullness in reading god words and by grace of god i will do well
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