(not quite) Weekly Lyrics

Great song from Jeremy Camp’s new album.  He has written some great songs about surrender/letting go/giving God control/etc. and I think this has to be one of the more powerful ones.  

Surrender by Jeremy Camp

Purify this tainted soul 
I’m tired of living life a fool 
Soften up this heart in clay 
To be a servant this I pray 
A reflection of You I long to be 
So Your kingdom I will see 

I Surrender to Your throne 
I Surrender to Your throne 
And I will make my heart Your home 
Oh I Surrender to Your throne 

I’ve taken things I’ve thought my own 
Only to reap what I sow 
You’ve given back the years I’ve fought 
An Ending love and grace You brought 
Eternal hope and peace You bring 
And forever unto You I will sing

The Free Servant

1 Peter 2:16 – “Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a coverup for evil, but living as servants of God.”

I think a lot of us have missed the true meaning of freedom. Freedom doesn’t mean that we can do whatever we want. True freedom enslaves us. Only when we are enslaved in service to God are we truly free.  That is hard for us to understand, but as Christians we are called into a relationship with the Ultimate Master who loves us unconditionally.  This Master has sacrificed and paid a great price to purchase our lives.  This Master has given us much to be thankful for.   Shouldn’t it be easy to serve a Master like that?

This verse reminded me of how thankful I am to be a servant of the Ultimate Master – and for the true freedom that He gives.  No longer am I forced to be a servant to my sinful nature, but I am now free to be a servant to The Master – and in Him I will find real freedom.

Couple quotes …

- from CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your own ambitions and favourite wishes every day and the death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.

 

Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

- author unknown
“I will do today what you won’t, so I can do tomorrow what you can’t.”