26 November 2012

I Surrender All (the hymn, the lyrics, some thoughts, some verses)



ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER
ALL TO HIM I FREELY GIVE
I WILL EVER LOVE AND TRUST HIM
IN HIS PRESENCE DAILY LIVE.

ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER,
HUMBLY AT HIS FEET I BOW
WORLDLY PLEASURES ALL FOR SAKEN
TAKE ME JESUS, TAKE ME NOW

ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER
MAKE ME SAVIOR WHOLLY THINE
LET ME FEEL THY HOLY SPIRIT
TRULY KNOW THAT THOU ARE MINE

ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER,
LORD I GIVE MYSELF TO THEE
FILL ME WITH THY LOVE AND POWER
LET THY BLESSING FALL ON ME

I SURRENDER ALL
I SURRENDER ALL
ALL TO THEE MY BLESSED SAVIOR
I SURRENDER ALL


i've  just been reminded afresh of how important SURRENDER is and how much and often i need to SURRENDER. and how, in God's incredible grace, He welcomes my surrender. 

i give You all  of me, God...ALL...all the good, all the bad, all the lovely, all the ugly.  i give You all of me, all of my feelings, all of my emotions, all of my failures, all of my successes, all of me.

and know what i love?  i can bring all of me...all of my junk...all of my attempts at honoring and blessing Him....all of my yuck...and HE LOVES ALL OF ME. He loves all of you, too... 

Ephesians 3:17-19 I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.