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The blessing of Surrender

 Quit quarreling with God! Agree with him and you will have peace at
 last! His favor will surround you if you will only admit that you were
 wrong. Job 22:21 (LB)

 The Bible is very clear about how we benefit when we worship God
 through surrender: "Agree with him and you will have peace at last!
 His favor will surround you if you will only admit that you were
 wrong" (Job 22:21 LB).

 In surrender, you begin to really live the life God intended: "Only
 those who throw away their lives for my sake and for the sake of the
 Good News will ever know what it means to really live" (Mark 8:35
 LB).

 You are set free, liberated from self-preoccupation: "But offer
 yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your
 lives you've let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you've started
 listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live
 openly in his freedom!" (Romans 6:16-18 MSG).

 God is able to use you in great ways.

 Why did God choose Mary, of all women, to be the mother of Jesus? It
 was because she was totally surrendered to God. When the angel
 explained God's improbable plan, she humbly responded, "I am the
 Lord's servant! Let it happen as you have said" (Luke 1:38 CEV).

 Nothing is more powerful than a surrendered life in the hands of God.
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