Surrender?

"Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish."
- John 6:9 (NIV)


I wonder how the story of feeding five thousand would have turned out if the boy had said, "I won't give you all of my lunch, but I will give you half." Would there even be a story? Part of what we learn from the passage is that the boy gave everything he had. In giving all the food he had, the boy and the others got more than enough to eat.

Sometimes when I think I've given a situation to God, I realize that I've held on to a corner of it until I see how things will turn out. The truth is that God can't work freely in my life until I surrender - all my circumstances.

It's good to give a tenth of my income to God, but one hundred percent belongs to God. It's good to give a seventh of my time to God, but all of it is God's. Everything is. When I get clear on that, I find that there is more than enough to go around - enough time, enough food, enough love, enough everything. God is enough.


Prayer
Almighty God, I give you my life, my all. Do with it what you will, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.


From: UpperRoom Devotionals - Carolyn Caldwell