Surrender...

We started a study on surrender in youth group tonight. It started me thinking, "what does it  REALLY mean to surrender?"

Webster defines surrender as "to give up completely or agree to forgo especially in favor of another." 

The first part of that definition seems like a no-brainer. If you surrender, you give up something. The last part of the definition is what hit me: especially in favor of another. When we surrender all we are--everything we have: our material possessions, our dreams, our families, our fears, our anxieties--to Christ, we aren't just giving something up, we are giving those things up in favor of Christ. We are choosing Him over those things that keep us running like hamsters on a wheel. 

The  next question may be...what then when we choose to surrender...what happens next?

It will be interesting to see where this study goes because this is SO much easier said than done.