The Safety of Surrender

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California, U. S. A. · Nov 11, 1930

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 57, No. 44.

The Safety of Surrender

There is a measure of safety in intrusting ourselves to a good physician. He may discover conditions in us of which we are unaware; he may treat those conditions successfully; often he will bring us out of sickness into health. Suppose we found a human doctor who did this not only sometimes, but always; who never in a single case failed; who brought every patient he ever had into full health: should we count ourselves fortunate if he was willing to take us in charge? There is no such human physician; but there is such a divine Physician. He has never lost a case intrusted to Him, and left wholly in His hands. He has never failed; He cannot fail. This is the One to whom we are asked to surrender our lives. Is it a dangerous move for us to make? Is it a hardship, is it asking a good deal of us when God urges us to trust ourselves wholly to His Son?

Frances Ridley Havergal, who knew this Great Physician better than most of her generation, is quoted in the Keswick Calendar in a letter to a friend: “How infinitely blessed it is to be entirely Christ’s. To think that you and I are never to have another care or another fear, but that Jesus has undertaken simply everything for us!” That is the meaning of surrender.—Sunday School Times.