Surrender or Offer?

# 84     Jan 14, 2013,  Monday, 10.am – st. Theresa’s chapel

Surrender yourself totally to Me.

This is different than offering yourself.

Yes the Morning Offering is a beautiful prayer yet it still is shy of surrendering.

Note that when someone is caught in war, there arms go up showing that they are surrendering – giving themselves over to the ‘other’ guy.

It is a very simple picture, yet says so much.

It says I am no longer in charge.  I am not fighting with you anymore to get my way, I relinquish all I have to you.  I will be obedient – march when you say march, stop when you yell stop, sit, eat on your command.

I own nothing, nothing is mine.  You are in charge of all of me.  But with a wartime surrender usually comes fear, insults, mistreatment, pain, forced labor, etc.

Yet surrendering to Me brings peace, freedom, a new outlook on a befuddled world, joy, humility, laughing, etc.

When you offer you and your day to Me, that is something you do easily and willingly and without losing any part of your control because you make the offering.  You are controlling the offering of you and your day.

Now when you surrender all to Me each day, each minute of the day, you step out of the control seat and welcome, beg Me to be in charge of your day.

When you offer you in the Morning Offering you finish with “O My God, I love you” – and I am so grateful for your love.

Yet, when you surrender yourself to Me it says “Jesus I know you love me, I trust you love me, I want You in charge of me and not me in charge of me.

So my surrendering banishes any of me in control.

If I know Jesus loves me (because He has said it) then why would I hesitate to surrender?

Because I am not full of Trust.  Trust in Him.

Yet I don’t have to be full of Trust, I have to be willing to be filled more and more with the grace to Trust and that only comes when I blindly surrender all of me to Him.

Surrender or offer – which will you choose?

Quiet your soul.  Quiet your soul.  You do not have to forgo one for the other – yet.

This is a gradual process and I just ask that you sit and ponder the difference and gradually be more willing to surrender.

It will not come instantly.  Yet, you wanting to be able to do it shows Me the graces you need to get there. 

DO NOT CHASTIZE yourself for not having seen this difference before.  Beating yourself up is only a sign of pride and you are trying like heck to bring ALL your pride to Me to My healing embrace.

Just thank Me for this revelation.

A step closer to a deeper relationship with Me NOW.

Sometimes when we find out something new, we regret not knowing it sooner.  So what you are saying is, that is ‘someone’s’ fault that you did not know this sooner?

Everything is revealed in My good time – the fullness of time.  It does not mean that before you knew this, the time was not put to the best of use.  This is folly.  This is foolishness.

Rather than sit regretting not being so inspired earlier on, I dare you to be joyfully thankful that you now know.

Praise God.  Yell out this revelation from the roof tops.  Be delighted that you have been so blessed by this revelation.

I have invited you to come closer and closer to Me, to grow closer and closer to Me – BUT you can’t do this.

I am the one who enlightens you and if you accept this enlightenment then you grow closer to Me.

I toss out these revelations.  They did not come from you or from your heart.

Yet they are waiting to be taken into a heart that is greedy for My guidance and love.

Now stop.  Sit with Me, adore Me, thank Me.

You are My beloved. I, Jesus, love you!  Be surrounded by this immense cloud of love;  let yourself get lost in it without fear.  Abide in Me.