Your will, not mine

how it is that the rest you at times enjoy is so often lost. It must have been- this : you had not under stood how entire surrender to Jesus is the secret of perfect rest. Giving up one's whole life to Him, for Him alone to rule and order it ; taking up His yoke, and submitting to be led and taught, to learn of Him ; abiding in Him, to be and do only what He wills ; — these are the conditions of discipleship without which there can be no thought of maintain ing the rest that was bestowed on first coming to Christ. The rest is in Christ, and not something He gives apart from Himself, and so it is only in having Him that the rest can really be kept and enjoyed. It is because so many a young believer fails to lay hold of this truth that the rest so speedily passes away. With some it is that they really did not know ; they were never taught how Jesus claims the undivided allegiance of the whole heart and life ; how there is not a spot in the whole of life over which He does not wish to reign ; how in the very least things His disciples must only seek to please Him. They did not know how entire the conse cration was that Jesus claimed. With others, who had some idea of what a very holy life a Christian ought to lead, the mistake was a different one : they could not believe such a life to be a possible attain ment. Taking, and bearing, and never for a moment laying aside the yoke of Jesus, appeared to them to require such a strain of effort, and such an amount of goodness, as to be altogether beyond their reach.


Above paragraphs taken from abide in Christ, by Andrew murry.


Let us abide in him, he wants all our life not part of it. I gladly and whole heartedly surrender all I am and all I have to him!