The New Life

Our Surrender to Jesus.
And what He takes, He has and thereafter cares for. Now it is
absolutely no longer mine. I must not take thought for it ; I
may not dispose of it. O pray, let your faith find expression in
adoration : Jesus takes me : Jesus has me.
2. Should there overtake you a time of doubting or darkness
whereby your assurance that the I,ord has received you has
come to be lost, suffer not yourself thereby to be dispirited.
Come simply as a sinner, confess your sins : believe in His promises
that He will by no means cast out those that come to Him
and begin simply on the ground of the promises to say : I know
that He has received me.
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3. Forget not what the chief element in surrender is it is a
surrender to Jesus and to His love. Fix your eye, not upon your
activity in surrender, but upon Jesus, who calls you, who takes
you, who can do all for you. This it is that makes faith strong.
4. Faith is always a surrender. Faith is the eye for seeing the
invisible. When I look at something, I surrender myself to the
impression which it makes upon me. Faith is the ear that
hearkens to the voice of God. When I believe a message, I surrender
myself to the influence, cheering or saddening, which
the tidings exercises upon me. When I believe in Jesus, I surrender
myself to Him, in reflection, in desire, in expectation, in
order that He may be in me and do that for which He has been
given to me by God.
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