The Daily Grace - Waving the White Flag

Recently, while watching a video of a church service held in South America, I noticed something I had never seen before in church. As the pastor passionately called his flock to yield their lives to Jesus, one of the parishioners took a white hankie out of his pocket and started waving it in the air. The another, and another. With tears running down their cheeks, they were expressing full surrender to Christ.

But, I wonder if there was more to the moment than the flags of surrender. I think they were waving flags of love to God. When God told His people to "love the Lord your God" (Deut. 6:5), it was in the context of His urging them to surrender their lives to Him. Surrender is God's love language.

From God's point of view, life with Him is far more than just trying to be good. It is always about relationship - relationship in which surrender is the way we express our grateful love to Him. Jesus, in amazing love for us, surrendered Himself on the cross to rescue us from our helpless bondage to sin and set us on a journey to all that is good and glorious. We don't have enough words to tell God how much we love Him! So, let's show Him our love by surrendering our hearts and lives to follow Him.